Hi
Another two WW1 postcards depicting the NZ general infantry badge as being the fern leaf type Onward badge. It seems to me that the generally accepted opinion during WW1 was that the NZ general service badge was the fern leaf type rather than the oak leaf type. I cannot understand why NZ'ers would include oak leaves on a general service badge over the traditional fern leaves which were the commonly accepted floral symbol for NZ. I can, however, understand that the oak leaf design may have been accepted by those NZ'ers living and recruited in the UK.
John
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