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Cloth badge backings for Colonial Police insignia
Not wanting to hijack Garry’s thread on Tanganyika Police & Prisons I thought I’d open this to reply to Gard’s comment re. badge backings for Colonial Police insignia.
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RUC cap and collar badges were backed with red felt (later plastic), as is the current New Zealand Police cap badge. I understand that Palestine Police officers numbers were backed with black leather, and I used to have a turban badge from the "Installations Auxiliary Police ANZUK Force", Singapore, backed 50/50 with dark blue (or black) and light blue felt. Finally, a year or two back I saw an Eritrean Police (BMA) slouch hat for sale with a square cloth backing to the badge (although I failed to note the colour/s at the time. There are probably other examples out there that I, for one, would be interested in hearing about. Graham
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Thanks for the info, Graham.
At first, I had thought the badge may have been a collar badge. Would you know what headdress it was worn on? I reckon it would need to be on a light ground for the dark blue backing to show up. Gard |
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Another addition, just found in my swaps (though I hesitate to class it as 'colonial') is a chrome collar/lapel badge of the Garda Siochana backed by a 3.8 cm square of royal blue cloth.
Graham
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