WW1 era Welsh Guards badge
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Does anyone have WW1 era Welsh Guards cap badge (cap star?) that they could show me please? Are they any different to the later badges? Also, does anyone have a WW1 era WG and leak shoulder title? Thank you |
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I don't have an early WG cap badge but do have an early WG & leek title. |
Thank you for that, and the photo.
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Good heavens Jerry,
You have rather surprised me, I would have thought that you, of all people, would have had a good number of them! Kind regards Frank Quote:
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I am afraid that they have always been a mystery to me, you find examples that on first glance appear quite old, both die cast and die struck, on sliders and lugs.
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Then, you will get people who start talking about the shape of the roots and how spread out the leek is, all a complete mystery!:confused:
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This might be a good candidate for a 1916 WG? Looks like its had a "last 3" stamped on the slider ...
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Hello Jerry,
Glad to see you have a couple, their badges are funny things really, but, they were worn, so I suppose any collector needs to have examples of them. Kind regards Frank |
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Hi Frank, They fit in with my interest in badges for the Welsh regiments and I also have a 1960's dated cap for them and a single embroidered shoulder strap. |
Jerry,
The WW1 badges were slidered and later patterns lugged and then returning to sliders! http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...hp?albumid=230 Andy |
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That is sort of what I figured, but how do you date the two versions of the slidered type, apart from the AA version which is also slidered? The lugged example came from you. |
The spread of the leaves on the leak will vary because some soldiers went to some lengths to get the "look" right.
Any time I show one to my father, who's now in his 90's, he still comments on how it doesn't look right & then sets about bending the thing to his taste, or rather the taste of the 1st Bn circa WWII. One of his brothers who was in 1st & 2nd Bns 1930's / WWII gave me his old WG cap badge decades ago, first thing my father did when he saw it was start wrestling with the leaves & break off the upper lug. That solid struck one my father declared a "proper" badge, better & more delicate looking than some WWII era ones. According to him the lugged badges were usually adapted within 1st Bn by having the lugs replaced with sliders simply for ease of removal for cleaning. |
Very good and informative to get the period perspective on these, such a great insight into how the boyos looked at their badges and altered them to suit their own tastes.
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I looked up the WO details for the WG a few years ago for Andy and I'm sure he won't mind if I reproduce it here
Pattern 8387/1915 slider Pattern 10906/1936 loops List of Changes 1951 slider Pattern 16023/1953 slider moved up 1/4 inch to allow badge to sit lower in the cap The WO directives are often inconsistent like this, some major changes are made without new "Pattern nos" issued and vice versa !! (if any one is really fanatic I can supply the day and month for these changes !) |
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