Devonshire Regiment

Vehicle related badges, anything worn by motorcyclists, cyclists or drivers.

Buttons

British Commonwealth artillery badges in the following forms:
- all to Royal Australian Artillery,
- the 'gun' badge post 1902,
- non- 'gun' head-dress badges to Britcom artillery,
- collars,
- embroidered red letters on blue titles,
- representative metal shoulder titles,
- the 'gun' arm badge for artillery senior NCOs,
- artillery proficiency badges.

Keith

Collecting to Stone Staffordshire and surrounding Villages
 

Collecting to Stone Staffordshire and surrounding Villages See link below medals badges uniforms etc to my home town is my main passion. My Avitar is Stone's main War memorial. Recent items Casualty pair to the town and Staffs Yeomanry Brit War Medal both men lived close to my child hood home within1/4 of a mile.

Badges buttons and medals and general militaria what ever takes my fancy. I have an interest in Japanese items and German also.

Recently I have been aquireing Belgium Military items mostly medals some badges and helmets WW 1-2 period.

Regards

Stephen

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Airborne forces with a focus on Glider Pilot Regiment
Royal Army Chaplains Department
WW2 forces in exile

British and Canadian insignia from units that served in Normandy.

British Airborne uniforms and insignia.

Collections
 

I mainly collect RAF, ROC and ATC but also have smaller collections of commonwealth Air Forces. Always looking for items such as Boy Entrant/Apprentice hatbands, Cranwell gorgets etc.

I also collect worldwide medal ribbons and have an extensive collection.

My collection
 

Just to add to the thread. I am now ex Royal Australian Artillery (1995-2016). I collect Commonwealth artillery badges in the style of the Royal Artillery badge ie the post 1902 design. I have just about (will have to recount) 360 different variants from 22 Commonwealth countries and colonies. I know there are others I have missed on buying because some collectors have deeper pockest than me and I didn't think I could slip a payment passed my wife!! I am looking to get a better digital camera with a decent macro lense so I can record them and possibly post to a website for others to view and comment on as I don't have the history on many of them. A concern for me now is what to do with this collection when I pass on, but hopefully that's a few years off at the moment.

Canadian WW2, Korea and Rhodesia
 

I have just started collecting. I began with my father's unit (WW2 Canadian Forestry Corps), then my uncle (Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Korea). I have yet to find details on another uncle from WW2. I remember my father said he was a mechanic of some sort.

My Rhodesian interests stem from a former girlfriend and tales related by her family.

West Yorkshire Man
 

Hello to all, I am a relatively new member and badge collector from Bradford West Yorkshire, who likes to collect WW1 cap badges and shoulder titles. Inparticularly Machine Gunners, Yorkshire Regiments, Palls Battalions and other assorted badges that take my fancy such as skills and proficiency insignia,I also have a few uniform buttons to display with the cap badges and shoulder titles.
I have a reasonable knowledge on the subject picked up from various books, forums and visits to badge and medal fairs,but have occasionally been duped by the odd re strike and good copy.
I usually ask about provenance before purchase, but in some cases this can not be relied on as factual we all well know.
Although at this time my collection is relatively small (115 pieces), some of them are quite nice and even desirable.
I also collect Britain and Thomas Gun military figures, and various pieces of memorabilia, all pertaining to WW1.

Collect
 

Hi..
I collect items related to UDI Rhodesia primarily.. but also pre-UDI/ Nothern Rhodesia/Southern Rhodesia/Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland/Zambia/. Malawi and Zimbabwe).... not just military services but items related to the Park Services, Nursing Services, Customs & Excise, Immigration, and Prison Services. Always looking for items to add to my collection. Thanks


Len

http://www.rhodesiansecurityforces.com

I collect as it says....

This is an excellent thread and I always enjoy seeing what others collect and especially pictures of how they display them.

After downsizing our home, my collecting space is more limited, so I no longer go for uniforms or much in headgear, but an interesting item of the latter would be nice - like a WW2 ATS side cap!!!. here's my study today - uniforms save two are costumes.

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After disposing of my WW2 US airborne collection, I picked up a few Napoleonic wars pieces, with my prized piece, being a French shako plate from Bautzen and a 2nd KGL LI button. But it just got too dear for me so for awhile, I didn't collect much at all. I have started again with special interest in the British Home Front - and more specifically the LDV/Home Guard and equally as desirable are FANY items and ATS items. I mostly collect cap badges and cloth patches now. At some point I want to add to my WLA buits and add some WVS pieces, btu they will have to wait for awhile because when one is retired the funds are way more limited!!!!.

Oh, as I also do cowboy action shooting I have picked up a few old west bits too, with the prize for me being a piece of original adobe from the OK Corral. Got it directly from the owner when he did some renovation work. Also got a blank used in the movie Tombstone from the man who supplied all of the guns and gear. Lily the Wonder Horse was borrowed for the picture, but if i could have a horse I would have loved her as she wa sa real sweet baby!!!

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Terry

G'day guys

I collect Australian in general and Light Horse in particular.
Australian Pre Federation, that is colonial pre 1900 and Boer War.
British Cavalry in general and no one will be surprised to know that I specialise in anything to do with the 17th Lancers, 17th/21st Lancers, 21st Lancers (someone has to look out for them), Queens Royal Lancers and Royal Lancers, well they all wear the Motto, and Lancers in general.

Regards

Phil.

Royal Marines, Commando, UKSF and Int related stuff - mostly from the period of my service (mid-80s to late 2000s) as well as odds and sods from equivalent allied units that I've worked with and a few other 'shiny things' that take my fancy from time to time. Mostly badges and berets though I do pick up bits of uniform on occasion too.

My mother nursed there - not in 1791 though.


S