Help with Arm Badge Identification

[leigh kitchen]

Originally Posted by Snowdrop 68

I was asked today by a work colleague if I could identify the arm badge on his great grandfather's uniform sleeve.

He served in the Royal West Surrey Regiment 1916 - 1919. I can identify the marksman badge but not the other two worn above it. One looks like a star and the top one a fusilier / LI grenade.

He said his GGF talked of being trained as a grenadier but the name was changed to bomber??

Can anyone help with the identification of these badges please.

Thanks, Bill

An excerpt from post no. 21 on the linked ARRSE thread:

"PS In 1916 it came to the knowledge of the Gren Gds that mere infantry Bns had the audacity and were referring to their Bombers as Grenadiers. This was stopped at army level, they were thereafter referred to as 'Bombers'"

[Snowdrop 68]

Thanks Leigh,

I'm not on the GWF yet, great info though.

Bill

[leigh kitchen]

You should be able to view the thread including images without joining GWF,

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...rossed-rifles/

Same with the ARRSE thread - the man in the photo you posted in post no.1 appears in a similar (but not the same) photo there too.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/th...thread.273036/

[grumpy]

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

You should be able to view the thread including images without joining GWF,

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...rossed-rifles/

Same with the ARRSE thread - the man in the photo you posted in post no.1 appears in a similar (but not the same) photo there too.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/th...thread.273036/

I am mystified. The GWF thread only has 3 entries, in the 2nd GS refers to an unspecified ACI.

Anyway I have emailed him: we coauthored the MHS Lummis Prize 5 part series on regimental numbers so stay in touch.

[leigh kitchen]

Originally Posted by grumpy

I am mystified. The GWF thread only has 3 entries, in the 2nd GS refers to an unspecified ACI.

Anyway I have emailed him: we coauthored the MHS Lummis Prize 5 part series on regimental numbers so stay in touch.

My mistake - I should've referred to the post on the ARRSE thread, not the GWF one (I've corrected the mistake now).

[grumpy]

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

My mistake - I should've referred to the post on the ARRSE thread, not the GWF one (I've corrected the mistake now).

see also:
https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...ion-id/page/2/

Nowhere do I see an authority for rifle grenadier badge. Will pursue.

Graham Stewart now investigating.

[leigh kitchen]

Another GWF thread - a Gloucestershire Regiment man wearing the grenade over crossed rifles:

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...omment-2821142