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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen
Churchill's also shows the small badge with trunk touching ground as worn by The Connaught Rangers, confirmed on 21/10/1881 but a new die with curled trunk was cut, sealed on 20/1/1882.
The Seaforths also wore it as part of the two piece collar badge with seperate "F" and scroll, the officer's pattern being gilded.
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Yes, the only real difference between ORs and the officer badges as shown on my doublet, is that they are gilded.
The larger elephant as shown in the original post is probably not for an officer.
CB