My apologies everyone, but I made a mistake in my conclusions about the 140th Brigade, 47th Division. I noted that the 17th and 21st Battalions changed suit when they moved over from the 141st and 142nd Brigades, and I then contended that the 15th Battalion did not change suit and kept their yellow spade. After consulting the ‘1919 Questionnaire’ at the IWM, it seems that the 15th Bn. did, after all, change suit. The Questionnaire states that they used a yellow heart from Feb 1918 onwards.
This does not change what I have proposed for the other brigades of the 47th Division as photographs show that other battalions continued to wear the insignia they had used previously. It seems that as seniority had changed in the 140th Brigade only, this must have been the need for the change.
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