That is correct, it is a generic slouch hat badge, but, made earlier rather than later, if you look at the original contingents, they started to arrive, in theatre, in 1899, they do normally have lugs made of rectangular copper wire and some, though, certainly not all, have a loop for the slouch hat ring, as shown in your photograph, an interesting feature of these badges is the applied detail between the letters on the "bars" both top and bottom.
Members of the various "state" bushmen soon had their own badges made, both, in South Africa and Great Britain during the Anglo Boer War and there were some really superb ones actually made before Vereeniging.
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Originally Posted by slick_mick
The Bob Gray collection in the Army Museum of South Australia has an IBC title with the other Boer War titles - caption states Imperial Bushmen Corps.
It's a different title however.
Mick |