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Originally Posted by Milmed
Hi Alex,
Officers in the SAHA always wore grenade collars with title 'SOUTH AFRICA' and other ranks without collar badges.
I have never seen a photograph of SAHA with those small SAHA collars and it is my opinion that they were either a private purchase cap badge or if produced during WWI, that it was for some other use and not as collar badges.
The Castle Museum has a nice photograph album and history put together by I believe the commanding officer of the unit and none of the photographs show small SAHA badges.
If someone can produce a picture of SAHA wearing these on the collars, I will retract my opinion above.
Steven
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Steven
Do you know if the Research Library is still accessible at the Castle? I know the that the guy that was there has now left. There were some interesting books in their collection, found the "unofficial History of the NFA" there, had heard about it but was shocked to see one of the 3 copies.
Brian