Wound Stripes and Chevrons denoting Service Overseas
Here is an interesting extract from the Battalion Orders Book of the 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles) dated December 1922.
Silver Badges, Wound Stripes and Chevrons Denoting Service Overseas.
1. The wearing when in uniform of silver war badges, wound stripes and chevrons denoting service overseas, introduced during the Great War, will be discontinued forthwith.
See post 13 below
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