Hi Luke
With pleasure! I couldn't post the reverse last time as I'd saved it as a BMP or some other thingy that means absolutely nothing to me....
Anyway, my computer skills have now progressed a tad so here is the reverse of the patch as requested.
I know that we should approach just about
everything that is collectable with a high degree of suspicion, but this was actually given to me when I bought the medal group and neither of us had a clue what it was.
It was even suggested that it may have been a Boy Scout fireside blanket patch!
The Azad Hind medal wasn't there, just the ribbon, but there was a ribbon for an Imperial Service Order and the miniature group featured an IGS which had gone from the full-size group.
Putting things together and using a bit of "collector's intuition", I'm picking that this patch was "removed" from an Indian POW....
Having said "removed" it looks as if it's never been sewn on a uniform so maybe it was a spare.
For the extra doubters, it was silk and not synthetic.