“BIA” Pt2. Personal anecdote
Some 6 years ago I was having supper with a UK based Burmese medical consultant, visiting various local medical locations. I produced a stamped out tin badge a little larger than an RAF beret badge; at the top it had star and within the wreath vertical lines like radio waves. He studied it for a few moments, asked if he could photograph it, and declared it was of the Burma Defence Army. What seemed radio was on fact a script. He said he was amazed to see it, last seen when his father had been Gen Aung San’s personal physician in the war.
Bosleys has sold this badge twice in the last couple of years, going for about £40
each.
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