3rd KING'S OWN HUSSARS

[Frank Kelley]

That is always worthy of note particularly in these days of more and more completely spurious badges being peddled by idiots.

Originally Posted by KLR

There were only 5 'all GM' cavalry badges of 1916


New Previous Amount Unit
Pattern Pattern ordered

8381A/1916 (8381/1915) 2,000 1st Dragoon Guards
4692A/1916 (4692/1898) 2,000 6th Dragoons
4758B/1916 (4738A/1901) 1,000 7th Hussars
8650A/1916 (4650/1898) 1,000 10th Hussars
4693C/1916 (4693B/1905) 4,000 16th Lancers

[leigh kitchen]

A 3rd The King's Own Hussars officer's silver and gilt badge with w/e lug fittings.
A nice badge until a horse knacker with an angle grinder attacked the scroll in what was presumably an attempt to make it serviceable as a Queen's Own Hussars badge?
Maybe an old soldier wanted a QOH badge for his beret for Remembrance Day or whatever and had to make do with a ringer.
Strange, a real hatchet job.
A couple of good whacks with a hammer would be a quicker and easier way of ruining a badge.
Despite the deliberate clumsy damage, somebody loved this badge - the horses tail has been carefully reattached.
"JR GAUNT LONDON" and "S" markings.