Non Europeans Military Police arm band

[loupie1961]

An arm band of the Non Europeans Military Police (NEMP), complete with Union of South Africa Broad Arrow stamp: possible vintage? Thank you in advance for your knowledge, gents!

[Brian Conyngham]

Never seen this before, very nice!

[Milmed]

See the following site re. MP brassards http://home.mweb.co.za/re/redcap/frames.htm

The writer notes the following: "It is believed that this brassard was worn by African members of the Union Defence Force during World War Two. The letters 'NEMP' are believed to mean Non-European Military Police. It must be remembered that although African personnel were utilised within the UDF, they were not considered to be soldiers but rather only auxiliary personnel. A machine-made version is known to exist."

From the above statement I read that this is a possible item and at least a single version of the brassard is known of. So either you have a very rare item or someone has seen the MP site and is turning these out in his garage. Pretty simple item to produce. I hope this is not the case though.

Steven

[loupie1961]

Originally Posted by Milmed

See the following site re. MP brassards http://home.mweb.co.za/re/redcap/frames.htm

The writer notes the following: "It is believed that this brassard was worn by African members of the Union Defence Force during World War Two. The letters 'NEMP' are believed to mean Non-European Military Police. It must be remembered that although African personnel were utilised within the UDF, they were not considered to be soldiers but rather only auxiliary personnel. A machine-made version is known to exist."

From the above statement I read that this is a possible item and at least a single version of the brassard is known of. So either you have a very rare item or someone has seen the MP site and is turning these out in his garage. Pretty simple item to produce. I hope this is not the case though.

Steven

Hello Steven, thank you so much: very interesting web page concerning the SAMP. Well, I guess such armbands would be pretty home made anyway: the SA Union Broad Arrow stamp is somehow reassuring, but still it could be a made up item. I have not overpaid it, for sure, so I would not be too sad should it turn put that somebody has assembled it in his garage: the price it sold would just cover his expenses!

[Milmed]

Glad to hear you were not charged to much. Still a very nice item.

[Madziro]

These two items were found by an MP friend when they were moving from one office to another in their unit lines while I was still serving in the SA Army some years ago. They were donated to the collection!! these are not often seen at all. Apologies for the terrible photo of the arm band. They are both WW 2 era.

Regards.

Dudley

[loupie1961]

Originally Posted by Madziro

These two items were found by an MP friend when they were moving from one office to another in their unit lines while I was still serving in the SA Army some years ago. They were donated to the collection!! these are not often seen at all. Apologies for the terrible photo of the arm band. They are both WW 2 era.

Regards.

Dudley

i would say that this will fix it...