Thanks for the link and info Arthur.
The 1951 date is when an official badge was awarded and probably the duel language red letter badge. But there must have been unofficial badges worn by Air Photographers before this.
To throw the proverbial 'spanner in the works', I have a SAAF battledress jacket to an Air Sergeant with a photographer brevet made out of an observer wing with an embroidered 'P' in the 'O' of the wing. Jacket has red tabs and no sign of post 1950 'SA' collar tabs, so I am comfortable to say it is a late WWII, early post war jacket.
Steven
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