With the greatest of respect the angles have not distorted it. This is the comment from the expert my brother and I have been in touch with who works on WW1 records:
"Very interesting and not a badge I've ever seen before. It most strongly resembles a crossed meat cleaver and filleting knife which would be entirely appropriate for an ASC butcher.
WW1 was a time when a number of irregular and unapproved badges crept in, not least because they were made commercially available. Sometimes such badges became approved subsequently, often in the 1920's, but this one is extraordinary I think."
I always knew my grandfather was a butcher after the war, but not that this was his role in the Army Service Core.
Jonathan
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