 |
Recent Books by Forum Members |
 |
|
|
|
|||||||
 |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
05-03-17, 03:34 PM
|
||||
|
||||
Shoulder Slides,Epaulettes Etc. & one question
A group as described above. Punjab, Baluch, and 13 Lancers. These also being from my searches at the SOS show last week. The one question is the on white slide with the #77. Has anyone seen anything similar to this before? Or know what unit it might belong.
thanks Jack 
__________________
"We must make our mistakes quickly"
Major General George Alan Vasey CB, CBE, DSO and Bar New Guinea 1942 
|
|
#2
06-03-17, 01:50 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
The 77th Moplah Rifles were disbanded in 1907 and there was no 7th Bttn of the 7th Rajputs, only 1-5 and a 10th [as was common], so I suspect it is a battery or company number for Gunners, Service Corps or something similar. Just a guess.
|
|
#4
07-03-17, 01:31 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Fair question.
|
|
#5
07-03-17, 03:23 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
"We must make our mistakes quickly"
Major General George Alan Vasey CB, CBE, DSO and Bar New Guinea 1942
|
|
#6
07-03-17, 03:23 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
"We must make our mistakes quickly"
Major General George Alan Vasey CB, CBE, DSO and Bar New Guinea 1942
|
|
#7
08-03-17, 01:00 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
It turns out that there were both a "77th Field Company IE" and the 77th Infantry Brigade, latter 77th Airborne. The latter was formed in '42 with a Gurkha, a Nigerian and one British battalion and were Chindits. In '44 they were redisgnated 'Airborne'. In fact, apparently, in 2015 the British Army designated one of its brigades '77' to honour the memory of the Chindit outfit.
Not completely sure this is relevant, but for what it's worth.
|
|
#8
08-03-17, 01:28 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Peter, thank you again. Interesting information. In speaking with the vendor who these were purchased from, the group had belonged to the son of a retired US Army officer. He having served in WW2.
Your information will help point me in a direction. Jack
__________________
"We must make our mistakes quickly"
Major General George Alan Vasey CB, CBE, DSO and Bar New Guinea 1942
|
|
#9
09-03-17, 09:50 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I don't think the 77 is regimental. Its white background suggests that it was the sort of badge worn by officer cadets whilst under training as a personal identifier making the individual anonymous but identifiable in training groups or syndicates.
The attached shows something similar for an officer cadet who was trained at OCS Mhow. The other photo shows a group of Indian WAC(I) with armbands which served a similar purpose Jon
|
|
#10
09-03-17, 12:37 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
That is interesting! I'd never heard of such a thing, but I suppose it makes sense, in a way. The instructors could assess, and berate, OCs without descending to personalities based on name [or caste or religion in the Indian context]. 'Cadet 77, you dozy bugger!'
|
|
#11
10-03-17, 10:05 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
It seems that something similar still happens.
Jon
|
|
#12
13-03-17, 12:38 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
Jack
__________________
"We must make our mistakes quickly"
Major General George Alan Vasey CB, CBE, DSO and Bar New Guinea 1942
|
|
|
|
 |
Linear Mode
