Good morning Iain,
The problem is with this campaign, as far as South African badges go, there were not that many metal examples being worn, many South African units wore a cloth flash, they have not survived in any quantity and others just wore the general service badge, the Union coat of arms, though most did wear metal shoulder titles.
Anyway, of those that did wear unique badges, my own favourites are those thin rolled brass types, which, although they are not unique to the East African campaign, as they were also worn in German South West Africa too, examples are quite rare and seldom turn up these days.
Of those units, I very much like the South African Rifles, two regiments were raised in just two weeks, following a request by the British Government.
They sailed up the Zambezi and marched over 500 miles the help the hard pressed Rhodesians.
The badge of the 2nd Regt is very nice as it has the addition of the title under the Bok's neck, the Springbok is South Africa!
Kind regards Frank
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Originally Posted by iaindh
Hi Frank,
please do have a check amongst your tins,  , this post is getting more & more interesting!
kind regards, Iain |