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Old 25-06-17, 10:40 PM
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Default Stitching in battledress

Anyone fancy interpreting this for me? Hand stitched in the belt of a British 1944 battledress blouse, badged to the parachute regiment and with a dark green lanyard (1st or 7th Bn). The digit to left could be a 7 but the others? "OO"? What might that mean? I'm stumped.
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Old 25-06-17, 11:32 PM
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The stitching isn't of the quality I would expect from either a tailor, or the owner adding his personal details. Best guess is that it was something to do with the original manufacturing process, and was only intended for the use of storemen etc.

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Thanks. That was also something I'd considered, although I've seen many stamped BD but never stitching like this.
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Taking that a step further, how about a Middle Eastern laundry mark, so the dhobi knows who's washing belongs to whom. I've had this done with different colour threads in North Africa.

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Thanks Stephen, that is an intriguing possibility.
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Perhaps from post-war Palestine service then.
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