Yes, that's 1939, I think there is also silent and very grainy footage from 1929 of them leaving for Egypt too, but, it is difficult to see if a badge was worn upon their helmets.
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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen
The pagri badge is shown in wear between the wars (late 1930's) in newspaper photos of 1 WG in London en route to Gibralter. I think there's Pathe News footage of them, possibly on YouTube.
Somewhere on forum in someone's album there's a photo of one of my uncles showing the pagri badge on helmet.
Edit: links added
https://youtu.be/0HEsNHS2T2k
https://youtu.be/xLTAuY6axJI
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