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Originally Posted by kingsley

This may be a bit off topic also, but 40 years ago when I visited Hugh King I gave him a QVC collar badge with the title on the scroll 'WBB Bearer Company'. Otherwise it was the same design as a normal AMC badge.
I knew it was rare at the time but it was out of my line and it was going to a good home. Never seen another or found out just what it was, no doubt Boer War, and possibly? associated with Gandhi.

Possibly Indian ?

The Army Hospital Corps persons did the menial service in British Station Hospitals and the Army Bearer Corps provided persons for the carriage of the sick and wounded. In 1903, the Army Bearer Corps was re-organised into 10 Division Companies and the duties of these Companies in war were to carry stretchers and doolies, and in peace for general work in hospital

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