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Old 29-06-23, 08:24 AM
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A good picture of the Buffs Pagri badge worn just after WW1.
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Old 29-06-23, 08:38 AM
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A good picture of the Buffs Pagri badge worn just after WW1.
Tail looks wrong for Buffs.

Perhaps Brecknockshire as seen here.
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Old 29-06-23, 10:33 AM
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The soldier has a set of medal ribbons and 4 stripes so I dated post 1919 and therefore a Regular soldier.

Can anyone date it earlier than that?
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Old 29-06-23, 10:42 AM
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I take it back.

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...kent-regiment/

The colours don't match the Buffs.
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Old 29-06-23, 12:29 PM
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This seems to have been converted from an Officer’s collar badge? But I don’t know when!

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Old 29-06-23, 01:14 PM
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There is this mystery badge too that I own discussed in this thread.

It is sans scroll tails like the badge in post #1 but the dragon tail differs.

Three loop fixings.
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Old 29-06-23, 01:59 PM
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I’d say that the badge shown in the OP is this frosted white metal version. Looks to be something made in theatre & quite distinctively different from an officer’s silver cap badge as shown below.
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Old 30-06-23, 06:59 AM
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There is this mystery badge too that I own discussed in this thread.

It is sans scroll tails like the badge in post #1 but the dragon tail differs.

Three loop fixings.
The search for a photo of it in use continues. the quality of it suggests Edwardian to me and certainly not Indian made.
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The colours of the ribbon flash on the side of the helmet certainly seem to chime with the Brecknockshire battalion as a part of the corps of the South Wales Borderers.
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Old 05-07-23, 01:11 PM
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The 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, served in India all through the Great War except for a short period in Aden (December 1914- August 1915). I am not sure when they returned home but very likely 1919 at the earliest.
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Breckockshire for me
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It is Brecknockshire. Note the group photo with the same badges.
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Hello again

The patch used by the 1-1st Brecknockshire Battalion was green with a central white stripe, worn on the left side of the pagrii.

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Old 06-07-23, 02:36 PM
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Hello again

The patch used by the 1-1st Brecknockshire Battalion was green with a central white stripe, worn on the left side of the pagrii.

William
That was the point I was making earlier William, it is the ribbon flash of the entire corps of the South Wales Borderers rather than just the Brecknockshire battalion. A unifying feature of all battalions within that corps.
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The soldier has a set of medal ribbons and 4 stripes so I dated post 1919 and therefore a Regular soldier.

Can anyone date it earlier than that?
I have just noticed he has five overseas service stripes, a red and four blues so overseas from 1914 to 1918.
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