Quote:
Originally Posted by atillathenunns
The ‘NZ’ being sweated onto the top of the Gaunt cap badge instead of die stamped as is with the Gaunt collars only raises more questions..
|
I suspect and this is purely speculative, that the reason for the sweating of the NZ on to the badges is that originally these badges stared life as British
Army Ordnance Department Badges, this could have been done either to meet urgent requirements to manufacture NZAOC badges or it could be because in 1918 the
Army Ordnance Department was disestablished and this was a practical way to re-purpose the now surplus AOD badges.