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Old 07-06-19, 06:52 PM
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Default Wings Badge ? Has anyone seen this before?
Was watching this item on Ebay the other day and am none the wiser regarding the badge shown despite trying to find something similar on the Net. Has anyone seen this before or any idea as to what the badge represents please.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WW1-Soldi...p2047675.l2557

(no relationship to the Seller by the way!)

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Old 07-06-19, 07:13 PM
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I think there was something indistinct, perhaps only the upper part of the badge, shown on forum some time ago.
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Old 07-06-19, 07:14 PM
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Thanks Leigh, will see if I can find it.

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Old 07-06-19, 08:05 PM
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Hi,
I wondered if it was some variant on a dispatch riders badge? Only because of the wings. As a side note he is Arthur Dirkin, later commissioned having enlisted in 19th bn of the Pals,
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Old 07-06-19, 08:18 PM
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Liverpool Pals?
I note that a photograph of a 2nd Lt Arthur Dirkin of the Liverpool Regiment, critically wounded in France in September 1918 appears in the Westmorland Gazette on the 12/08/19, (apparently).
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Old 07-06-19, 08:38 PM
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Hi the seller had the same man in 2 cards, the other was of Dirkin but in full uniform at Knowsley, which he had signed.
The other posting with the winged badge I have found, posted on 21.12.10 with title 'Liverpool Pals arm badge', the guy wearing it looks like a 19th bn member from the patch below the shoulder title, same as the gent in the ebay listing. Maybe it was an unofficial patch used by them, given the only 2 examples I've seen are both from that battalion.
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Old 07-06-19, 08:40 PM
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Sadly I dont know how I put a link to that original forum entry in the text here, Gary
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Old 08-06-19, 05:08 AM
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The link to the thread:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ool+Pals+badge
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Old 08-06-19, 01:32 PM
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Leigh,

Thanks for the link and additional information found there.

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Old 08-06-19, 01:33 PM
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See Dave Bilton's 'The Badges of Kitchener's Army" page 83 - messengers of 19th King's wore a special winged badge on the right arm - presumably these were the battalion runners.
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I've got the book - forgot to look.......
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Old 08-06-19, 01:40 PM
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Thanks Mike
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Old 08-06-19, 01:41 PM
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Can some technically minded person please put the ebay photo on here so we can all see it in the future before the link dies.

A superb photo of a new arm badge to me, of a 19th (S) Bn. Kings Regt messenger.

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Old 08-06-19, 01:53 PM
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The photo:
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