Thanks Alan. Good explanations. I guess doubling up avoided the expense of designing things like new cap badges. Did they all use the same cap badge?
How could you tell he was in the 1st, rather than the 2nd or the 3rd? Is there a record or is this because of the smallness of the 1470 number?
He did get two medals: the Victory and the British War Medal, but not the Star.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first...service-medals