Re the Specialist badges. I was advised by Dave Corbet who wrote the bible for NZ cap badges, and who I worked with at Air New Zealand, that the badges were worn on the troop ships but taken down at Sling Camp near Salisbury. The Signal Specialists were as far as I have found out only Regimental Signallers. Some may have found their way into the Divisional Signal Company but I am not aware of any. These specialist badges are also in bronze for type one and may be for other types. Some were made in gold for sweethearts. Unrelated but of interest to NZ badge collectors, I have a silvered collar for the NZP&T. The lady who gave it to me, who was ex signals her self from the NZCS in WW2, said her father was in the Postal Section in England and they wore the badges silvered. Has any one else heard of that?
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