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A million years later...
I've posted this previously... information from ‘A Soldier’s Diary of the Great War’ by Captain Douglas Herbert Bell, MC: On the 5th November 1914, the 1st Bn., London Rifle Brigade, landed at Le Havre, France. Sometime during their one day and one night train journey from there to St. Omer, they had blacked over their white-metal cap badges. Clearly, in terms of the Great War, this practice was being adopted extremely early on. JT Last edited by Jelly Terror; 19-06-22 at 11:19 PM. |
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I once had a pair of T/5/ grenade/ LF titles that had been blackened. I got conned out of them but I kept the cap badge with its blank "Egypt" scroll. They were attached to a leather belt with odd associated badges, a Turkish button, etc. |
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I picked up a blackend grenadiers badge about 30 years ago now, it was a mess and I decided to strip it down and wish I hadn't now for a long time, it had a destinct 10 or 11 layers of paint but in l places it had broken through back to the brass with a stepped effect which you could count just like rings on a tree, personally I don't think you'll ever find out why some badges are blackend but surely the passing of the King must be up there for some badges along with different situations during war.
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