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Old 08-09-21, 02:06 PM
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I wonder if anyone is able to offer a suggestion about the badge in the photo. It is an enlargement from a named group of officers of the 4th Bn dated 1893. Although I may be mistaken, it looks as if there is a device below the scroll. All comments welcome.
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Old 08-09-21, 02:53 PM
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It is the Sphinx collar badge and the only thing I can think of to be attached below the Egypt tablet would be a 4 or a M for Militia, but both sound unlikely to me, so really I am unsure.

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Old 08-09-21, 09:15 PM
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It looks like it could be the Lincoln Imp.
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Looks to be the wrong shape for an imp which is longer than its width sorry. It looks as per Simon's suggestion like a Lincs collar badge but I too have not seen anything worn below these when worn on the FSC, cheers Dean
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Not that I know what the blob under the Sphinx is, when magnified it does look taller than it is wide.
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I am stumped as well. I am also not sure that this is Lincolnshire either, as so many others wore the Sphinx in various incarnations. I might add that the tail up on the Sphinx in the photo is like that worn by the Dorsets.

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I am stumped as well. I am also not sure that this is Lincolnshire either, as so many others wore the Sphinx in various incarnations.

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See the first post. Named and dated photo.

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See the first post. Named and dated photo.

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Otherwise I was going to tentatively suggest possibly East Lancs, a sphinx above rose, not that I know of such a badge.
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Not that I know what the blob under the Sphinx is, when magnified it does look taller than it is wide.
Leigh, I meant the whole badge looked like it might be the Lincoln Imp.
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Old 09-09-21, 04:23 PM
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I wonder if anyone is able to offer a suggestion about the badge in the photo. It is an enlargement from a named group of officers of the 4th Bn dated 1893. Although I may be mistaken, it looks as if there is a device below the scroll. All comments welcome.
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There was no 4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment in 1893.
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There was no 4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment in 1893.
Well if that is the case, this is a mystery photo. The Sphinx is not the Lincoln style, so the attribution may indeed be incorrect.

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Leigh, I meant the whole badge looked like it might be the Lincoln Imp.
Ah, right.

Black Rifle Volunteers buttons on the cap?

The names of the officer's shown in the photo may help identify the unit.
The Royal South Lincolnshire Militia formed the 4th Lincolnshire Regiment but I take it they wouldn't have had the Sphinx as insignia?
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Ah, right.

Black Rifle Volunteers buttons on the cap?

The names of the officer's shown in the photo may help identify the unit.
The Royal South Lincolnshire Militia formed the 4th Lincolnshire Regiment but I take it they wouldn't have had the Sphinx as insignia?
I stand corrected. I thought the 4th (Militia) Battalion had gone by 1893.
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Old 09-09-21, 08:12 PM
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Default Lincolnshire Regt

Thank you all for your thoughts.

Simon, I too had considered the idea of the letter 'M' but thought that it was already used on the epaulettes. As for the number '4', I can't dismiss it, but I have never seen such used, which doesn't mean it wasn't.

Hoot, The idea of the 'Lincoln Imp' had never crossed my mind but I thought that it was a later device.

I attach an extract from the 1893 Army List for additional information but cannot for the moment upload the complete image.

The names of the officers as listed on the photo are,
Lt. C A Pelham
Lt H T Timson
Capt W G Grant
Lt E K Cordeaux
2nd Lt J A Cole
2nd Lt C R Nevill
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Old 09-09-21, 08:33 PM
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An Edward Kyme Cordeaux was an officer in the Lincolnshire Regiment and Labour Corps prior to and during WWI.
(An EK Cordeaux (a South African) served in a South African unit during the Boer War).
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