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Buffs Pagri badge
A good picture of the Buffs Pagri badge worn just after WW1.
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The soldier has a set of medal ribbons and 4 stripes so I dated post 1919 and therefore a Regular soldier.
Can anyone date it earlier than that? Last edited by Alan O; 29-06-23 at 10:41 AM. |
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I take it back.
https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...kent-regiment/ The colours don't match the Buffs. |
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This seems to have been converted from an Officer’s collar badge? But I don’t know when!
Tim
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I’d say that the badge shown in the OP is this frosted white metal version. Looks to be something made in theatre & quite distinctively different from an officer’s silver cap badge as shown below.
Last edited by 41st; 29-06-23 at 02:19 PM. |
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The colours of the ribbon flash on the side of the helmet certainly seem to chime with the Brecknockshire battalion as a part of the corps of the South Wales Borderers.
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The 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, served in India all through the Great War except for a short period in Aden (December 1914- August 1915). I am not sure when they returned home but very likely 1919 at the earliest.
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Breckockshire for me
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It is Brecknockshire. Note the group photo with the same badges.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/who-d...84356907899429 CB
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Hello again
The patch used by the 1-1st Brecknockshire Battalion was green with a central white stripe, worn on the left side of the pagrii. William |
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That was the point I was making earlier William, it is the ribbon flash of the entire corps of the South Wales Borderers rather than just the Brecknockshire battalion. A unifying feature of all battalions within that corps.
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I have just noticed he has five overseas service stripes, a red and four blues so overseas from 1914 to 1918.
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