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Forum: The Classifieds: Sales and Wanted 26-03-24, 07:56 PM
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Views: 200
Posted By Brian0338
Australian badges and formation signs for sale

I have a few badges from Australia for sale, I have photos and also a list, if anybody is interested just send me a message and I will send photos and prices, or make an offer in your message, I have...
Forum: The Classifieds: Sales and Wanted 11-03-24, 08:41 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 619
Posted By Brian0338
some Sweetheart badges, does anybody want them?

I have two sweetheart badges, have had them for years and as I started to collect badges when I was about five years old I have no idea where I got these two badges. 1 badge is for the London...
Forum: Sweetheart, Veteran and other Lapel Badges. 09-03-24, 06:43 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 212
Posted By Brian0338
Sweetheart badges

I started to collect badges in about 1943 when I was aged almost 6, I lived in Mitcham Surrey and ended up with badges that were British, American, South african, Polish, and so many other countries...
Forum: Infantry (& Guards) Badges 25-10-12, 07:59 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 6,537
Posted By Brian0338
Unsure if this is the correct thread, but I am...

Unsure if this is the correct thread, but I am looking for an image of the hat or cap badge worn by 66th Regiment of Foot during the period November 1857 to December 1878 when an ancestor of mine...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 02-04-11, 10:19 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 6,407
Posted By Brian0338
Victorian cap badges

Does anybody have an image of a cap badge or any other badge worn by the Rhodesian Field Force in the Boer War, 1900-1901

we would welcome an image, my great uncle served in that unit, but we have...
Forum: Infantry (& Guards) Badges 24-02-11, 08:56 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,299
Posted By Brian0338
Cap/hat badge of The Rifle Brigade 1857-1877

I wish to find an image of the badge a Rifleman in the Rifle Brigade would have worn on his hat during the period 1857-1877. A great great uncle of my wife served in the unit in India and China...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 23-04-10, 06:31 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,688
Posted By Brian0338
And Yet another Australian

Thanks to Alan and to Tinto.

for the last 40 years I have been helping my wife do research in to her family tree, I have the family tree of my Mum back to the early 1700s, but as the mother of my...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 22-04-10, 06:47 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Thanks Alex Rice, but I have recently been given...

Thanks Alex Rice, but I have recently been given a copy of the attestation papers of my Dad, all the info I had was wrong, the Attestation Papers, from British Archives, show that he enlisted in the...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 22-04-10, 06:43 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,688
Posted By Brian0338
Thanks to Mike and his clue that about the two...

Thanks to Mike and his clue that about the two small badges being Sweetheart Badges, the Secretary of the London Scottish Association has just advised me that the most recent sale of their sweetheart...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 22-04-10, 06:35 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,688
Posted By Brian0338
And yet another Austrtalian

thanks for the info on the formation sign badjez - once we knew what it was, and after talking to people at the Burma Star Association, we realised it came to my wife with the medals of her uncle who...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 22-04-10, 06:31 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,688
Posted By Brian0338
Not another Australian

Thanks to Tinto who gave me the first clue to the badge on the hat of my Dad as being that of the 1st (Royal)Dragoons. After lots of hours of searching, lots of heartache and being convinced that I...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 03-04-10, 01:46 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,686
Posted By Brian0338
Can anybody please value a sweetheart badge

I contacted Sally Bosley by enail, before I found the Artillery badge on her site, and asked if she could tell me the value of the Artillery badge and the London Scottish badge.

I received a reply...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 03-04-10, 01:38 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Need help to identify this badge

I have checked the Essex Yeomanry site, cant say the badge appears to have the same scroll on the bottom, and I cant find any info on what that Regiment was doing between WW1 and WW2 when my Dad was...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 31-03-10, 04:31 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,686
Posted By Brian0338
Can anybody please value a sweetheart badge

I checked the site for Sally Bosley - she has one exactly like the Artillery badge that I have, with the badge fixed to a .303 rifle and described as a WW1 sweetheart badge, she wants $72 US for it,...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 29-03-10, 11:26 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,686
Posted By Brian0338
Can anybody please value sweetheart badges

I have two badges that have been identified in another thread on this site as Sweetheart Badges, and I would like to know if they have any value, does anybody collect them, and can somebody please...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 27-03-10, 05:47 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,368
Posted By Brian0338
Recent finds

read your post about the two buttons, have a look at a previous post of mine on new member, Tet Another Australian,, I have there a button, appears to be bone or similar with a silver surround....
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 27-03-10, 05:38 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Need help to identify this badge

A good suggestion Alex, but I am working through from the other end. I am hoping that if I can identify the Regiment, I can then contact their Museum, and perhaps find they have old nominal rolls of...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 26-03-10, 05:39 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Need help to identify this badge

Dont want to make a pest of myself with this issue of chasing the identity of the badge worn on the cap by my Dad in the mid 20s, but I have just spent some time looking at all the badges on the site...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 25-03-10, 08:42 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,688
Posted By Brian0338
Looks like I have now found the source of my...

Looks like I have now found the source of my formation sign with the dagger in the mailed fist, gold wire on red background, the uncle of my wife was a member of the Border Regiment from late 1920s...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 24-03-10, 01:13 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Need help to identify this badge

I have been looking carefully at the badge of my Dad, and noticed it has the scroll at the bottom similar or almost the same as the scroll on the badge of the Pembroke Yeomanry, but they became an...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 23-03-10, 09:47 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Need help to identify this badge

thanks for the help again I have checked the North Staffs, looks as though they may have been in India from the early 30s, and as far as I am aware the only time my Dad served in India was during WW2...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 23-03-10, 05:40 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Need help to identify this badge

thanks to Alex, tonyb and tynesideirish - I have looked at each of the suggestions, and the problem is that I know my Dad did not join the Army till mid 1920s, as prior to that he was RN.

I note...
Forum: It's a Mystery -Unknown Insignia for Identification 21-03-10, 10:43 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 3,045
Posted By Brian0338
Need help to identify this badge

Posted on another thread on this site is a picture of the hat worn by my Dad in a photo taken some time between the mid 1920s and mid 1930s. The thread is
...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 19-03-10, 06:00 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,688
Posted By Brian0338
Yet another Australian

I forgot to ask if there are any collectors out there who look for sweetheart badges, as it seems the London Scottish badge posted on this site for me, and the small artillery badge mounted on a...
Forum: New Member Introduction Zone 19-03-10, 05:57 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,688
Posted By Brian0338
Smile Yet another Australian

thanks for the suggestion re the Royal North Devon Yeomanry. I googled them and found that in 1920 they were amalgamated with another Devon Yeomanry Regiment and became an artillery unit, with...
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