Lancashire fusiliers question
 

Hello :) And happy Easter peeps :)

I have a question why is this badge looking to the right and not the left ? :confused:

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https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30076586

Because it's one of a mirror pair of collar badges, one is facing the same way as the cap badge, the other faces in the opposite direction.

Hi :)

It says that it's his cap badge :confused:

First World War period cap badge for the Lancashire Fusiliers associated with the service in the 16th (Service) Battalion (2nd Salford), of Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Walton.

Perhaps "Wilfred" wore the collar badge in lieu of a "lost" cap badge, otherwise the badge is simply mislabelled.
It has lug fittings rather than the usual tangs of a cap badge but the clincher is that the sphinx is facing the wrong way.

Thank you :)

The caption at the very bottom of the IWM page concerned does say under the title “Label”: Wilfred’s “Cap and Collar Badges”, they just don’t seem to have made the difference clear.

It is certainly not inconceivable that Lieutenant Colonel Walton actually wore a collar badge on his cap, I should imagine a great many people had rather more to occupy their minds during the war.

I can only see three photographs of collar badges upon looking at the link.