Badges such as these are quite interesting in that while 100% genuine they were never authorised by the Army Dress Committee. Instead, local military authorities were given a budget and authority to fund and authorise such items at a local level. As such, they do not appear in MoD documentation.
Other example include such badges from the Falkland Islands Defence Force. From Wikipedia:
The Falkland Islands Defence Force (FIDF) is the locally maintained volunteer defence unit in the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The FIDF works alongside the military units supplied by the United Kingdom to ensure the security of the islands.
Note that the unit '...works along side..." and is "...locally maintained..." .
The badges used by the FIDF were part of the inventory with NSN up to the 1990's but I have never found their inclusion in any MoD documentation from then on.
Chris
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