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Victoria Mounted Rifles
Hi, I just wanted to share my Victoria Mounted Rifles badges. I recently acquired the second of the 2 in Owens book. It was marked as a pouch badge in Owen, but the badge I have has lugs. Does anyone have any information on these 3 badges? My assumption is that the 2 star shaped badges are earlier and the script letter helmet plate is a later badge(later being pre NMR). Also does anyone know of any other VMR badges not shown here? Have a great weekend. Andrew
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Well done Andrew, thanks for showing them. Some exceptionally rare badges!
I have always liked the early badges with the floreate lettering. Cheers, Alex |
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Thanks Alex, have a great evening.
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Excellent badges. Thanks for posting them. I think that we need a few more posts like this to get the interest levels up .
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Thanks Mike, much appreciated.
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Andrew,
can you tell us the approx. dates of your badges? I attach a pic from one of my books, showing Trooper F Rathbone and another VMR member photographed in Stanger in 1879. My book tells me the VMR were formed in 1862, and in the AZW they had a strength of 47 men. They fought at Nyezane. |
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