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Originally Posted by sapper533
As coincidence would have it, I spotted this card on ebay so bought just because it had the badge on the front,
What I didn't expect is that the seller had researched the sender of the card and sent their findings.
Lt John W Lugard (Kings Own)
Seconded Small Arms School 1927
Pachmarhi Wing Central Provinces.
So you were spot on Toby
Cheers
Sean
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Thank you for posting it Sean - very interesting to me. Also the green and yellow ribbon colours of the SofM. The colours of the Netheravon Machine Gun School in the U.K. were red, green and blue (from the old MGC) and when the Small Arms School Corps was formed by merging the two schools in 1926 the two sets of colours were all combined and eventually appeared in the new corps ribbon and later in a stable belt and necktie. From a cap badge perspective it’s especially significant that if you superimpose a Vickers MG in profile over the crest (also your badge) on your card it creates the cap badge adopted by the SASC, three years later, in 1929.
P.S. There was another such school at
Changla Gali during WW1. The original school of musketry during the HEIC era was at
Dum-Dum, and where Indian and European NCOs were sent to learn the new, greased Enfield cartridge loading drill that in part led to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 (aka the ‘First War of Indian Independence’).
NB. Notice the similarities with the Canadian School of Musketry badge and the various inspirations for a Vickers gun in profile.