Does anyone recognise this emblem? - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

#1 06-02-18, 03:04 PM

Hi.

Does anyone recognise this emblem on the button?

At first I presumed it was Dutch, however I then noticed the lion is wearing the British 'King's' Crown?

Many thanks.

Phil2M · #2 06-02-18, 03:05 PM

Its a Merchant Navy button. I can't think of the line. It may be Clan Line. Cunard also have a rampant lion. Im at work so cant look it up.

Cribyn · #3 06-02-18, 03:52 PM

Sorry to disagree but I think it is a button for the Wrekin College Officer Training Corps (previously known as Wellington College).

The same button is illustrated as such in an article on OTC Buttons by Howard Ripley in the MHS Journal in August 1976 (illustration 86) and described as "A crowned, rampant lion".

Roger

Phil2M · #4 06-02-18, 03:54 PM

Apologies to mislead then. As I said, I am away from any references. Very limited signal.

High Wood · #5 06-02-18, 06:40 PM

It looks like the kind of button that you might find in a small cardboard box of odds that also had a blackened, Shropshire Yeomanry cap badge and a Cambridge University O.T.C. cap badge in it.

#6 07-02-18, 07:36 AM

Thanks guys.

So it's definitely A Wrekin College OTC button then, not Dutch or Belgian?

Cribyn · #7 07-02-18, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by rangergul

Thanks guys.

So it's definitely A Wrekin College OTC button then, not Dutch or Belgian?

I'm sure it is but try putting the post in the 'Military Buttons' section and you might get confirmation.

Also, is there a backmark? Not conclusive if it is a British backmark, of course, as British companies made firms for the rest of the world but it would be a pointer.

Roger