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Originally Posted by Luke H
I would be careful about placing Sydney Dann in the unlikely category. In my Accrington Pals research I discovered Walter Holmes gifted his original cap badge to his father a few weeks/months after it was issued, it remains unaltered i.e. no sweetheart pin conversion to this day.
So he may well have been issued more than one cap badge or paid for a replacement before he DOW in 1917.
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It is very unlikely that I will ever know exactly who the badge belonged to, but I did ask the seller if he remembered where he had bought the badge and I am sure that he won't mind me posting his reply.
"To be honest I don't know where it came from exactly, I have quite a few Bedfordshire Regt items, but I'd say it was locally bought, probably among a job lot at auction. I will look through my files as I only buy locally so it emanated from the Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire area".
I am leaning towards the badge having belonged to 8826 Pte Henry Dann, because of the Cottenham, Cambridgeshire connection. I am hoping that the forum member also has a Military Foot Police cap badge with the same name scratched on the slider as this will confirm my theory.
