No, I do not have any evidence for a slidered R Warwicks’ collar; however I do have a Heavy Bty pagri with a similar slider. The figures above the “H” do not conform to the standardisation of RA pagri, as the Bty served outside India,and I should date it at about 1927 - sometime before the R Warwicks’ badge.
Transferred to RA in1940, arrived in India1943, and survived various changes of title, with a spell of 8 months in Burma, all mostly in 36 Indian Div.
Whilst it is conjecture, the regiment could have delivered a consignment of 400 collars to a backstreet metal worker, and the “modification” achieved,which was both inventive and imitative of a cap badge fitting. Furthermore it would render the pagri badge to be easily removed for cleaning.
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