The "22" Beaver Badge
If you look in Charlton's catalogue you also see an example of the 22nd Bn badge with the "22" on it. Is it certain that the 22 was added to the beaver badge before the end of WW!? If it came into use at the end of WW1 was it a fixture from that time onward? Obviously the older badges would take time to run through the system.
Are there known tells of design of the die or maker marks or badge finish that define a badge as clearly being a CEF badge of the 22nd? That is to say, is there a way of dating a beaver badge with or without a 22 on it? There are also, out there, lots of 22nd Bn badges with a white metal or silver overlay on them. Did all of these occur in the mid war period up until the 1952 period of the change over of the crown?
It can be confusing when a unit uses basically the same badge for over a century.
Thank you
Don
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