Thank you both. The sleeve on which worn may never have been defined: the badge appears on the left or right lower sleeve, but I have never seen it elsewhere.
I have revisited the subject of where the Special Service Section sSs badge was to be worn.
I see that Denis Edwards and I concluded that, as we believed it was a badge of appointment, it was to be worn on the upper right sleeve.
Searching all my references today I can find no reference or authority at all for our assertion. In common with very few other badges it seems to be neither fish nor fowl regarding "category", so where to wear it was perhaps a moot point. [Another example is the distance-judging star for regulars, which was plonked on the right sleeve as there was nowhere logical to put it].
The Section was referred to in VF Regs 1901 and subsequently. I do not hold that year's but have put out feelers.
Meantime [not a lot of people know this!] it has also been seen in white metal, and a lovely badge that is too.
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