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Originally Posted by Toby Purcell
Markus please believe me when I say that I’m not telling you the following information to rain on your parade. The badge you depict was never worn by the Military Mounted Police or the Military Foot Police. Instead they wore a vertically elongated star plate of Dragoons type**. As well as the helmet plate they wore Dragoons pattern cuff knots on their full dress tunics. Unfortunately an erroneous identification of your badge in the Kipling and King book on British Army badges has been accepted as gospel. I am positive this information and have discussed it with the researcher and author at the CRMP Museum, Toby Brayley.
Original artwork by a prolific artist, Ernest Ibbotson, who always sketched and painted from life depicted the uniform and insignia accurately, unfortunately modern artists such as Bryan Fosten and Alix Baker, who could not work from life researched as best they could and as both accepted the Kipling and King reference they painted the helmet insignia incorrectly.
**inspired by the MMP mounted status and a historical nod to previous military police known as the Royal Staff Corps who had acted as the Duke of Wellington’s police until being disbanded at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. They had been mounted and dressed in the Dragoons style.
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Toby the bottom 2nd from the right, the chap has 3 medals. What do you reckon the 3rd medal is ?
Andy