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Originally Posted by fairlie63
Agree with Lettman, both patches in first pic are fine - 2/14 might be Middle East local supply.
Keith
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I checked my own collection and found eight patches with similar grey blanket-type cloth backings to the 2/14th patch depicted. Six of them could have been supplied in the Middle East, one looks like it might have been a 43rd Bn militia patch 'promoted' to the 2nd AIF by being hand-stitched onto a piece of army blanket, but the last raises a doubt about supply in the Middle East.
The anomaly is attached, and is an example of the very first 'official' patch allocated to the 2/13th Bn (Glyde 941). The patch was rendered obsolete at about the time the battalion was being sent overseas, so I wonder whether it would have been worth anyone's while to have a version manufactured 'in theatre'. I realise that there are probably no definitive answers; I'm just putting it up for observation and discussion.