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Originally Posted by Alex Rice
My thought is that it may be a repro which somebody has drilled to look like sweat holes. The raised edges around the holes show they were drilled and not stamped when the badge was made, just my opinion though.
Cheers,
Alex
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Those were my exact thoughts but why go to the trouble of making a one piece badge and adding an overlay unless you had a supply of one piece badges?
Can we rule out that the underlying badge is a 1916 G.M. badge? If it is, it would be easier to drill sweatholes for the overlay than to cut out rectangular holes.
I am not convinced that this is a reused G.M. badge but would appreciate an opinion about the possibility not that I can find no evidence that the Lancashire Fusiliers cap badge was issued in G.M.