RAF Good Conduct badges/ stripes
I would like a steer here, please.
1. does anyone have a photo of an airman wearing GC badges, chevron, point up, lower left sleeve? The RFC airmen, being army, were certainly entitled after 2 years service, and would almost certainly have retained them when RAF formed.
2. and, arising from that, how about between the wars and during WW II ............
The formal introduction for RAF was by Air Ministry Order 720 of 12th August 1920, with up to three available. The badges were to be worn in the same manner as the army, but it was not until two years later that they were confined to ranks below substantive corporal. No less a character than TE Lawrence, under the pseudonym of Aircraftsman TE Shaw qualified for his first badge 12th March 1925, and his second on 12th March 1931. Unless his previous army service counted, we might deduce that these were awarded for two and eight years. King’s Regulations and Air Council Instructions 1940 gave the periods as three, eight and thirteen years, and the awards were still being made through the Second World War.
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