Any ideas?

[JON188]

Bought this last week in the Czech Republic.
Seems to have a Kings crown?
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[GriffMJ]

Looks like an Int' Corps badge on top of an RAF eagle?

My mock up on the right...

[JON188]

thats what i thought, but just wasnt clear enough.
And the backing is NOT of a brit design, so no ideas.
I did a search on the web for Free Czech Airforce Intelligence adn nothing came up
Jon

[GriffMJ]

It will be a Czech RAF WW2 Badge of some sort, Int Corps related..... possibly RAF Recce/Intelligence Officer? (you lucky man )

.......Status of the Czechoslovak airmen prior to their deployment in the RAF. Therefore all Czechoslovak officers and airmen were immediately commissioned or enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR).

Originally all officers, irrespective of their Czechoslovak rank, were commissioned in the rank of pilot officer, the lowest commissioned rank in the RAF. The only exceptions made were in the case of flight and squadron commanders who were necessarily granted the appropriate acting ranks. All airmen were enlisted with the lowest possible classification of aircraftsman 2nd class and awarded a higher acting rank to fill establishment posts as applicable, so that most were soon granted the temporary rank of sergeant.

In the beginning, the Czech airmen were concentrated at the Czech air Force depot at Cosford, near Wolverhampton, through which they all passed before they joined a squadron.

http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/cze...F ORGANISATION

[Mike Jackson]

Clearly an Int Corps badge, but isn't the eagle more Germanic - outstretched legs and talons, upswept wings - than RAF (or possibly even the Czech interpretation of an eagle)?

[johnG]

[QUOTE=GriffMJ;126342]Looks like an Int' Corps badge on top of an RAF eagle?

Does that qualify as an oxymoron. (Joking of course)

[GriffMJ]

[quote=johnG;126360]

Originally Posted by GriffMJ

Looks like an Int' Corps badge on top of an RAF eagle?

Does that qualify as an oxymoron. (Joking of course)

Waaaaaaay over my head

[Phil2M]

Oxymoron is a phrase that contains two pieces of contradictory information, intel and raf in this case. Thats very mean john

Phil

[Phil2M]

the eagle on this badge looks like the design used on aussie air force badges.

[JON188]

I am of course assuming its Czech purely because i found it in a junk shop over there.
There was another capbadge of the same type of backing, but it had a Czech design on the front (CANT remember much more on the design).
Will be nice to find out what this is eventually, shame its not a WW2 SAS badge!!!!

[SAS1]

The eagle shown on the badge is Indian Air Force/Royal Indian Air Force, thats 100% certain. The fact the badge is clearly sand cast strengthens the fact its made in that part of the world but as to what the upper part is I dont know. I would hazard a guess that it might be a made up item along the lines of a sweetheart badge. Possibly a lady serving in the Womens Auxiliary Corps (India) attached to the RAF or IAF (effectively WAAFS), with a husband serving in an intel unit. I have extensive Indian reference material, but Ive not come across a badge like this before. It could also relate to the just post war RIAF. But I am pretty certain its not representative of a single particular unit.

[JON188]

tHANKS SAS1
Unusual to find it in Czech Rep.
There was a badge of a different metal type, darker and with some sort of Czech type shield or something, with a similar backing. It was in some random antique junk shop.
i Collect SAS bits, so this bad boy is up for exchange guys, am particularly after an embroidered Malaya command on maroon.
Cheers for the J2 thus far on this item
Jon