Signaller Grey Backing
 

Picked this interesting badge up at the car boot this morning.

75mm or 3inchs tall.

All suggestion welcome.

Rob

Those flags look more like lances.
A wild guess - signallers badge, 17/21st L ?
Shouldn't take long to shoot that one down.
"Colonial"?
A Volunteer Rifles unit?

I'm struggling to find any reference to a signallers badge where the left hand flag is white rather than blue?

Rob

I can't find any reference to a British badge like it. The only grey background I can think of is, as Leigh suggests, pre 1881 Rifle Volunteers but I would think the badge is more recent than that.

I would also say colonial, or foreign.

David

In Edwards & Langley they note an example of Black on Grey, with coloured flags, but not stating that the left is white.

Many Volunteer Battalions of Infantry wore grey uniforms upto 1908 so its more likely to be one of them.

regards

Just spotted a similar badge on in ASR142s album described as WW2 period Somerset Yeomanry Signallers Arm Badge?

Is that correct?

Rob

He also has it available for sale in his website, listed in the last day or so, as Somerset Yeo.

Another one on ebay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152935879...84.m1436.l2649

I would still like to know if there is any historical justification for this description or if this is just one dealer copying another?

Rob

This example is more of a blue grey backing, I don't think its RAF so I'm leaning towards pre 1908 volunteers?

All thoughts welcome.

Rob