Leicester Regiment Officers Cap Badge.

[thursdaychris]

Hello Chaps, Tigers haven't been on my wants list for quite some time, nonetheless, I was quite interested to see this example, this morning, on the online auction site that we all know and love. It's a bit different to those that I've got, has anyone else got one like this?

[mooke07]

Not the finest example of an Officer’s badge sorry Chris.

Cheers Dean

[thursdaychris]

No Dean, it certainly isn't, I'm not thinking of buying it, I'm just wondering if it's the first homemade silver/gilt badge that I've ever seen?

[High Wood]

Possibly made by an Indian jeweller. There were two battalions of the Leicestershire Regiment in India and Burma from at least 1944 to 1946.

[manchesters]

Personally I like it.

Its authentic and would look good in a Leicesters collection.

best wishes

[mooke07]

As a WW2 theatre made badge it would sit with that context in a Tiger’s collection. Cheers Dean

[Alex Rice]

You do occasionally see officer badges with those odd blades on them. I have an Inniskillings with similar blades.
Nice badge.
Cheers,
Alex