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Old 13-10-20, 12:01 PM
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Question White metal Cambridgeshire cap badge

This badge is one that puzzles me, mentioned in K&K Volume 2 (Fig.1817) and sealed 24 October 1952. Exactly the same as the normal bi-metal cap badge except it is all white metal, why was it produced?

Had they run short of gilding metal title scrolls?

Were they a cheaper option as there was no extra work to do adding the G/M scroll?

This one is in un-issued condition, my guess is that Cambridgeshire TA probably never wore them in any quantity and probably wore the bi-metal badge while stocks lasted until the amalgamation with the 4th Btn Suffolk Regt to form the Suffolk and Cambs Regt.

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Old 13-10-20, 07:48 PM
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Rob, I thought they wore the RA gun badge from 1947 to 1956 as a LAA Regiment RA, then, on conversion back to infantry, the new all-white metal Cambridgeshire Regiment cap badge came into use.
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Old 14-10-20, 07:06 AM
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Smile LAA Regiment RA

I am not sure as to whether they wore RA cap badges, if they did then the all white metal badge was short lived.

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I'll need to do some digging, but I have some late WWII paperwork etc to a WWII RASC man who was Cambridgeshire Regiment during its RA phase post WWII.
Amongst the items is a posed photo of him with an ACC man, I'm fairly certain he's shown wearing the Cambridgeshire's cap badge rather than RA.
I'll find the photo and, I think, supporting paperwork re. dates of service.
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Discharged from the RASC "Services No Longer Required - On Enlistment Into The Territorial Army", on 7/12/1948 enlisted for 2 years service in the LA and AA, posted to 629 LAA Regt RA TA (The Cambridgeshire Regiment).

The photo shows him wearing the Cambridgeshire's badge in GS Cap.
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Cool LAA Regiment RA

Great photo Leigh, nothing like a photo to explain the wearing of badges.

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It would have been good if the photo was dated, but the accompanying paperwork gives the details of his 2 years enlistment period - but I don't know if he continued in the TA after that.
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Nice one Leigh, now we know.
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There’s this too, but it is from cult man
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Old 16-10-20, 05:44 PM
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Andrew,
This is a badge I have tried to research for over thirty years, I have one which I bought from Bosleys a few years ago, but it has screw posts which points to a pouch badge, but some I have seen have normal loops.

I did wonder whether these were made for the return of the drums from Singapore ceremony which took place postwar, however, looking at contemporary photographs there is no evidence of this badge being worn.

Duxford museum have a specimen but no firm knowledge of who or when it was worn. Some thirty years ago I contacted a former bandsman of the Cambridgeshire Regt who transferred to the Suffolks in 1939 and he had not heard or seen one of these badges.

Any further information would be gratefully received.

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