Help on cap badge please. - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

sketchley kid · #1 31-08-17, 10:14 PM

Help on this cap badge please for a friend.........no info at all apart from WW1.

41st · #2 01-09-17, 04:04 AM

I rather suspect it's a VTC unit from the uniform, but which one I can't tell sorry.

Alan O · #3 01-09-17, 07:24 AM

Definitely a VTC.

sketchley kid · #4 01-09-17, 08:36 AM

What is a VTC unit?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Name Albert Edward Mills...maybe a connection Royal Irish
Rifles........

Alan O · #5 01-09-17, 09:00 AM

WW1 Volunteer Training Corps. Think of the Home Guard but raised locally rather than by the War Dept. They wore their own uniforms in 1915-16 before adopting standard khaki when they became Volunteer Battalions (not be to confused with pre 1908 VBs) of the local Infantry regiments. Your man is wearing a VTC style jacket (they had several styles) and cap badge .

VTC cap badge designs are not recorded that well and there are lots of unknowns. There are some excellent albums on the Forum which may help.

Despite a few issues in Ireland with arming the locals there was an Irish Association of VTCs. See this article from 1916:

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/artic...ing-corps-to-t

sketchley kid · #6 01-09-17, 04:25 PM

Full photo......the man was 45 years old at beginning of WW1...so too old for forces.