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Dear Guzzman & RCN
From what I remember, the stock book had a number of original (and rare) badges pasted into it. From an historical point of view, it must go to a safe repository has some of the badges have never been seen being worn and some have been seen but are very rare. John |
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Royal Navy Badges (Funnies)
Hello John
I couldn't agree more. The sale of South Yard has meant the closure of the Devonport Dockyard Museum, the Dockyard Police Museum, lack of public access to the Execution Cell and the other historic buildings of South Yard (the oldest part of the dockyard) and the relocation of the Field Gun Museum away from the dockyard. The general answer to the question 'What has happened to everything?' is that 'it has been put into storage'. It is important that we keep track of these artefacts before they are lost forever. Pete |
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Pete
I will make a few enquiries this end. John |
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Thanks for posting the photos of both the Hydrophone rate the rating's uniform tunic - its a really nice example! What size is yr red badge? My gold example is 2 3/4" across the base & 3" high, measured thru the H to the top of the arch. Bryan |
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To be able to view the original & rare badges would be a real treat, so few of them still around in this century.... RCN Bryan. |
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Royal Navy Badges (Funnies)
Hi Bryan
My badge is approximately the same size as yours - it's not a very big badge. To be honest, yours is the only other example I have seen before and I envy you for having it! As I said previously, I did contact the Imperial War Museum to see if they could give me any more information on it and they confirmed that it was a Hydrophone Operators badge and dated it to 1918. The only other information they provided was to confirm that they had examples of it in their collection (including an example of the badge with a King's Crown above) and to state that the badge was never issued (obviously wrong!). I've never really been able to find out anything else about it. Pete |
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KC above would indicate a PO or CPO, wonder if badges exist with stars also? I thought I had posted it on the Forum not long after I acquired it but I cannot locate it in search. I cannot even recall where I got it but thought obtaining one of these in Canada was amazing to me. Might have been brought over here by a naval veteran emigrating here in the 1920's - who knows? I think it really great that yours is still intact on the rating's uniform tunic! RCN Bryan |
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