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Same badge? Can't tell from images on fine. |
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They appear quite similar. thanks for posting the photo
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My badge came From Cairncross and son. Filey, Yorkshire, one of 2 designs sold as "officers" badges. The beret was from the Turkish PX in Sarajevo. The other Cairncrosd badge was a larger more garish affair, lots of gold scrambled egg on a silver globe - I got one of those too, gave it to the UNMISET UNPOL Commissioner a fewyears later.
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Whether "BRABATT" had any "official" recognition outside the contingent, I don't know, but the term is used in the final issue of "CHIMO", our contingent newsletter. http://www.buffalo461.ca/Files/chimo3no10.pdf I don't recall anyone wearing a BRABATT badge, didn't even know of its existence before seeing it on this forum. The HSU personnel wore the "UNEF MEDICAL SERVICES" badge on a pocket fob with a small Canadian flag pinned above the badge. That is how mine was issued to me. My battered badge and its plastic fob (it rattled around in my box of insignia over many years and moves) are both stamped with "T BISHAY CAIRO" as well as what I assume is the same in Arabic. Last edited by Blackadder1916; 15-04-15 at 08:42 PM. |
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I think many of these pocket fobs were being made up after the fact. I recall a collector had a catalog of them and I believe he was ordering them from the maker. It may have been Doug Townend.
Phil
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Speaking with experience only of UNMIBH & UNMISET, insignia was made up by enterprising local firms, some copies of "proper" UN insignia, some "fantasy", & they were bought & worn by personnel in the missions. Maybe not by military, but certainly by police.
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Thanks Blackadder1916 for the FANTASTIC resource CHIMO. It is a wealth of information on many of the fobs. There is very little published on these colourful badges so first-hand experience with them is much welcomed.
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