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Old 02-08-17, 09:04 AM
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I picked up the attached badge on ebay, a'Buy it now' purchase, a couple of years ago for about £25. I think it was described as WW2. At the time I believed it was a WW1 VTC mufti badge. I remember Ray Westlake wrote an article about the Pharmacists Corps (which I can't find) but illustrations of the Pharmacists cap badge show a different motto, Scientia Vincit, to my badge. Can anyone confirm that the Pharmaceutical Corps and the Pharmacists are indeed one and the same?

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Steve H
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Old 02-08-17, 10:04 AM
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Steve,

I think the Westlake article you were thinking about was in the MHS Bulletin of November 1981 and it is attached.

The unit Ray wrote about seems to have had a different motto from the one on your badge. Could there have been more than one Corps made up of Pharmacists ?

P.B.
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Old 02-08-17, 10:24 AM
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Steve,

My understanding, and I would also welcome any confirmation, is that the Pharmaceutical Corps is a American corps, set up some time before WW2. The Pharmacists Volunteer Training Corps, as you know, was a WW1 British VTC, so very different.

Best regards,

Tim
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Old 03-08-17, 07:28 AM
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Hello Peter and Tim, many thanks for your replies and for taking the trouble to post the article it's much appreciated. The only additional information I should have posted was that it was made by 'Toye & Co Ltd, London'. I shall have to check the American angle now!

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Steve
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