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Originally Posted by Alan O
My experience of Victorian/Edwardian SLI badges is that the lugs were positioned vertically. The side by side fixing on the scroll would make the badge more vulnerable to bending and even breaking as well as not sitting that well on the cap.
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Without trying to be pedantic, I'd like to point out the 1st VB badge actually has the loops running diagonally.
On the badge in question it's often referred to as as for the Militia. It's possibly but in the Gaunt stuff chucked out by the NAM was a bag of bronze bugles with the mouthpiece to the left but no upper Jellalabad scroll. I would hardly think the manufacturer would go to the trouble of making a two piece badge where versions worn by the regulars and volunteers always appeared as a single stamp.
So if the Militia did wear a badge is was very possibly this with the OR's wearing something similar to Churchill's Fig 405/6.