This badge was authorised in March 1908 by the W Lancs TF Association. The WO didn't take much notice of TF badges until; 1915. They then authorised it as Pattern no 599/1915. The WO ordered 3,000 of this Pattern.
The next year they renumbered it with a four digit Pattern number to bring it up to all other badges - Pattern 9142/1916.
It's difficult to differentiate between with the dates but I can tell you that there are five dies - including (marked) Lambourne.
Its last iteration was a (marked) Gaunt made batch of 3,228 made between 1944-5.
Probably used by cadets ? - up to the 1960s ?
Last edited by KLR; 28-04-21 at 09:40 AM.
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