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Originally Posted by High Wood
Probably one of the best known example of the phenomenon is "Billie" Neville of the 8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Best known for the footballs in No Man's Land on 1st July 1916. In every known photograph of him he is wearing the badges of the East Surrey Regiment,
His headstone has the badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment that he was commissioned into but never served with.
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Another example, but with a different dynamic was Lieutenant Robert Graves, who had a Special Reserve Commission with the RWF, but with 5-fellow RWF officers was sent in a draft of six subalterns to 2nd Battalion the Welsh Regiment where he served for over 6-months front line service, wearing that regiments uniform and insignia. When he was eventually posted back to his regiment it was the 2nd Battalion RWF that he joined, only to find himself publicly upbraided for wearing a Welsh Regiment pattern shoulder-rank (“wind up”) jacket, much to his chagrin, and he was immediately required to return to the regulation cuff-rank jacket required by his parent regiment.