Regimental Badges worn before issue of 2nd NZEF Badge
Has anyone ever come across any accounts or seen any photographic evidence where pre-war regimental badges were worn by 2nd NZEF personnel in Egypt or the UK prior to the issue of the 2nd NZEF 'Onward' Badge?
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Onward badges were issued to 1st echelon on the troopships, 2nd and 3rd were issued prior to departure.
I have photos of regiment badges on troopships, but nothing in Egypt or UK. |
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Artillery cap badge being worn by NZ officer supervising Italian pow during the first Libyan Campaign.
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Brendan O'Carroll's latest book, Images of War The LRDG in action 1940-1943, page 28 shows a picture of a T patrol member wearing a SD cap with a 10th Nelson mounted rifles badge, dated 1st November 1940.
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In the "The Desert Road" edited by Megan Hutching, on page 187, in a write-up about James Barclay, 8800, Second Lieutenant, 27 Machine Gun Battalion, there is a photo "Desert bathroom. A route march at Helwan, 1940" showing a soldier wearing a lemon squeezer with the NZMGC badge.
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