RAF cap Badge in White Metal

[Snowdrop 68]

I have had this in my collection for a few years now, can anyone shed any light on it being White metal??? Is 100% original as I got it from a veteran but he didn't know anything about it.

[dragonz18]

SD,
the only reference that I have seen to this type is in Cox's,often unreliable ,book of WW1 period badges.There he shows RFC badges(1 solid & 1 voided)in W/M as being RFC Costabulary badges. If this is correct(?),then it may have carried on from the 1918 name change. But for how long,I do not know.?
I have an RNZAF badge,nickle dipped, that I'm told was for the Band here ??
This occurs in NZ for other items also, like the NZ Artillery, but I think this may be possibly only a 'local' custom. W/M drum badges used on Artillery bandsmen's gauntlets is another one, by the Colonel's orders, I'm also reliably informed.
This may be of some help or a guide for further research ?
Cheers!
Steve

[Snowdrop 68]

Thanks Steve, I had been led to believe it could be RAF Police in WW2. Kind of hoped it would be!!

[graham]

I have an RAF plastic cap badge and some RAF plastic buttons that have been painted silver ?????

[Snowdrop 68]

Hi Graham,

I have a plastic cap badge too but mines been left brown. Could be that it was RAF Police in WW2.
Bill

[cga00]

Snowdrop, I have a couple of chrome / white metal ORs badges in my collection and I've always thought of them as bandsmens badges, maybe that is why Grahams badge was painted. The only painted RAF badge I've ever seen was an Air Ministry Constabulary, originally white plastic but painted silver to mimic chrome. I'm pretty sure that the RAF police used a standard brass badge.
Steve, never heard of the RFC constabulary. Air ministry wardens were created in 1918, before that airports & establishments were policed by met or county police.
Regards, Craig.

[dragonz18]

Craig,
neither have I, but was just passing on the reference, from Cox's text there. Hence the 'often unreliable' note !
Cheers !
Steve