Alan
if you got to
http://thaneofife.org.uk/ffy-ww1.html
You will see a picture of recruits being trained near Skegness (1915)...... if you look at the Troop Corporal .... you will see the Brass Badge..... the recruits all wear the white metal badge
You can zoom in for some good high detail as well.... its a cracking picture ...... proof positive I think. The date and the badge falls into the issued "economy" date...... I bet that Troop Corporal has seen service in France.
Got to this website: -
http://web.mac.com/braeside/World_Wa...pt_1917.html#9
And you will see the badge being worn in pugaries in Egypt
They are all wearing the white metal badge.... c1917
The patch ..... appears to be the red diamond of the "Camel Corps"
Ironically..... the chap that took the pictures..... joined the 14th (FFY) Btn Black Watch and died in 1918 , God rest him.
Private J W Moonie, Son of William Moonie of 66 Campbell St., Dunfermline.
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Bn.
Date of Death: 2nd September 1918
Service No: 345260
Age: 26
Jim is buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery in the Somme. (near Private Keith... the chap I first found in the War Graves).