Badge for ID - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

irishhorse · #1 23-09-18, 08:41 PM

Can anyone positively ID this cap badge ?

leigh kitchen · #2 23-09-18, 08:47 PM

The badge reminds me of a type of NF officer's FSH badge. Is the cap button visible? Is that a double row of piping around the top of the cap or a single, "low" row?

irishhorse · #3 23-09-18, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen

The badge reminds me of a type of NF officer's FSH badge. Is the cap button visible? Is that a double row of piping around the top of the cap or a single, "low" row?

It's worn by a Canadian officer I think post WWI. But I've been told the badge is a British fusiliers grenade.

manchesters · #4 23-09-18, 09:42 PM

I dont recognise any British cap badge like that with a plain ball.

Can you show the full photo it may assist.

regards

54Bty · #5 23-09-18, 09:43 PM

To me it looks like a 7th London collar badge.

Marc

Phillip Herring · #6 23-09-18, 10:06 PM

I have seen pictures of it in wear attributed to the 104th Westminster Fusiliers, a pre-1914 Canadian Militia regiment.

Phil

leigh kitchen · #7 24-09-18, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by irishhorse

It's worn by a Canadian officer I think post WWI. But I've been told the badge is a British fusiliers grenade.

Sounds like someone was thinking of the small generic grenade used in a variety of roles including as shoulder title, collar badge, proficiency badge - similar to but not the badge shown in the photo.

magpie · #8 24-09-18, 06:06 AM

Can we see the whole picture.

GTB · #9 24-09-18, 07:53 AM

It may help to revisit an old thread

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...light=grenades

GTB

irishhorse · #10 24-09-18, 08:01 AM

The photo shows an officer of the Irish Fusiliers of Canada. But don't think cap badge is one associated with that regiment. Perhaps a generic fusiliers cap or collar badge ?

leigh kitchen · #11 24-09-18, 08:46 AM

I thought I'd seen the badge in a photo on this forum before - didn't this photo appear on the forum some months ago, possibly with the subject identified?
Or have I just made that up?

Edit - link to a previous post from July 2018 showing this image (better detail of buttons and collar badge):

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=68753

irishhorse · #12 24-09-18, 09:15 AM

The collars are Irish Fusiliers of Canada. WM eagle on brass grenade type. I've seen the collars before, they are of similar size to the cap badge of the Irish Fusiliers of Canada Cadet Corp. Buttons brass Canadian militia. But the cap badge in the photo ?

West Yorkshire Man · #13 24-09-18, 03:36 PM

Could it be a 7th City of London Battalion cap, ? or may be Marine Artilery
( The Royal, post 1922 )
These being cap badges without inscriptions on the ball.

Phillip Herring · #14 24-09-18, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by irishhorse

The collars are Irish Fusiliers of Canada. WM eagle on brass grenade type. I've seen the collars before, they are of similar size to the cap badge of the Irish Fusiliers of Canada Cadet Corp. Buttons brass Canadian militia. But the cap badge in the photo ?

I have a pair of collar badges similar to these. The ones I have appear to have been made by taking 104th Westminster Fusiliers collar badges, removing the white metal 104th device and then plugging the holes and mounting neatly trimmed eagles from Irish Fusiliers. buttons.

irishhorse · #15 24-09-18, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Phillip Herring

I have a pair of collar badges similar to these. The ones I have appear to have been made by taking 104th Westminster Fusiliers collar badges, removing the white metal 104th device and then plugging the holes and mounting neatly trimmed eagles from Irish Fusiliers. buttons.

Any chance of some pictures of the collars ?