Hello Mike,
To the best of my knowledge, certainly from 1916, in Great Britain and France, SAMC officers simply wore the OSD cap badge and collar badges of their own corps, as here, on the right, Captain Liebson SAMC was the 3rd SAI medical officer, the regiments famous Adjutant, Captain MacDonald on his left.
These badges really cannot be confused with the OSD cap badges worn by the regiments officers, they are a completely different shape and size.
In common with OSD badges, the actual cap badges had blades on their reverse, the collars had lugs and as mentioned before, were made here by Firmin for the Corps and were normally clearly marked as such.
Regards Frank
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Originally Posted by QSAMIKE
Steven......
Ahhhhh Soooooo that has solved a question..... In with the medals were two small bronze Springbok badges and I thought that since he was medical they could not have belonged to him so I will add them to the fame I am making up..... Thanks Steven......
Mike
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