I identified collar badges - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

rboorman · #1 12-10-21, 02:12 PM

Your thoughts on the country off origin of this pair of collar badges would be most helpful. Thanks

davidcushworth · #2 13-10-21, 12:35 AM

French maybe? They have a certain Gaelic look about them.

cbuehler · #3 13-10-21, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by davidcushworth

French maybe? They have a certain Gaelic look about them.

Read Gallic; a small (but critical) typo I presume. Whilst I do not know what they are, the clutch fittings are very US looking, but the badges themselves are not.
Rather lacking in artistic design I must say.

CB

Home Guard · #4 13-10-21, 02:51 AM

Interesting badge. If we could ID the vehicle that might help narrow it down. The US uses 8 wheel armored car types, and the badge shows 6.

I also did a search for French, Belgian, Russian, Spanish and US and the closest I came to it is a French Foreign Legion badge. It's badge #7 on this page.

https://militarybadgecollection.com/...ges-part-2.htm

Will have to follow this to see what it finally turns out to be.

Terry

ajc347 · #5 13-10-21, 09:13 AM

In terms of the vehicle, it looks potentially like it’s a French EBRC Jaguar to me, hence I would guess that they’re either French or Belgian badges.

ajc347 · #6 13-10-21, 05:36 PM

A bit more thinking and research leads me to think that the vehicle looks more like a Panhard ERC-90 Sagaie than its modern replacement, the EBRC Jaguar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panhard_ERC

If this is the case then it's likely that the badges could come from France, The Ivory Coast, Gabon or Nigeria.

rboorman · #7 15-10-21, 02:26 PM

thanks all for your thoughts. nothing conclusive but useful pointers.