The book was written by Graham Wootton , I've got a copy but haven't really gotten onto it yet.
There is an article covering the basic backgound of some of the various groups/associations available online.
1914-1918 online "Veterans' Associations (Great Britain and Ireland)"
The more I read about the four 'founding organisations' , their different political/social/ideological backgrounds , I wonder how the decision was made to use the name of a group of "roughs" who had previously "acquired a name for disorder".
Sorry , I have drifted from the original topic of the badges , maybe we will never discover their history.
