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Album Question - South African Liverpool Pals?
Yet some more superb badges posted by argyll919378, is not the badge pictured in Picture No7, top row, fifth badge a Liverpool Pals? I cannot see what is on the base scroll! Or is it like some many other badges, adopted but with different motto/title?
http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ictureid=10973 argyll919378 - Your dad sure had (you now have) a cracking collection!! Andy |
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Without a close up it looks just like any other Liverpool Pals badge, I have never come across the badge being adapted for wear by any other miltary unit although years ago I did come across a "Liverpool Pals " which had the" Sans Changer" ground off and" Huyton A.A." inscribed on the scroll.
I presumed this was Huyton Anglers Association or something similar.Huyton is a short distance from Knowsley and Lord Derby`s home where the original silver Pals badges were presented. P.B.
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Hi, This is a very nice set of badges. What is the badge third from the right in the top row? Regards Andrew
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Andrew,
I think it is a Liverpool Pal, hence the thread! Andy |
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That will teach me to read the thread and not just look at the picture. It was the only one that wasn't an SA badge. After reading the thread, I also wonder what the SA connection is, or was it just placed there by mistake. Have a great evening. Andrew
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HI good evening , ref: your badge HUYTON A.A you may well giggle your self silly at this idea but any chance it was HUYTON ANTI-AIRCRAFT?
Im sugesting the badge belonged to a great war soldier now serving in Home Guard anti aircraft unit , i know the experts will state all Home Guard A.A units wore the R.A capbadge but this is not so , just an idea ? regards,Nemo . .......ok you can start laughing now |
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Nemo,
Whilst it is an interesting possibility I dont think that such a badge would have been allowed within either a Royal Artillery or Home Guard Anti Aircraft unit. Having said that I was talking to an acquaintance recently who is currently an officer with a CCF unit and he was telling me that he still wears his old cap badge from when he was an officer in the Yeomanry, the Yeomanry unit no longer being in existance ( whilst his fellow officers wear the correct badge of the unit to which the CCF is affiliated).So far no one has said anything to him. This is the sort of thing that makes that makes the study of military insignia so fascinating and why I become rather amused when people are so sure about what was, and what was not, worn. I dont think after consideration ( much as I would be happy to be proved wrong ) that there is anything in your suggestion. Regards Peter
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