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Scots Bomber (?)
Can anyone help identify the regiment of this kilted Jock please?
It looks as if he has a bomber's grenade on his left cuff. Was this a recognised position for that badge? All help appreciated. Jon |
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Jon,
No it should have been worn on the upper right arm as a Skill at Arms badge. regards
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Simon Butterworth Manchester Regiment Collector Rank, Prize & Trade Badges British & Commonwealth Artillery Badges |
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Duplicates post.
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Possibility of being worn instead of the grenade over crossed rifles badge to indicate rifle grenadier?
Or simply that it's positioning is misinterpreted to be as per badges for other weaponry skills such as crossed rifles, LG etc with those badges being worn on upper right arm by Instructors? |
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There are several period examples of the GM 'Grenade/Bomb' being worn in the same position as the Scots Bomber most notably a series of West Yorks Bombers in 'Forgotten Tommies'. Not correct according to regulation but the position of other Appointment/SAA badges may have caused these 'mistakes' to occur.
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SCots bomber
What about him wearing it unofficially to denote a bombing instructor?
Stephen.
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Life is just a hallucination caused by breathing oxygen, because when you stop breathing it, everything goes away |
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regards
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Simon Butterworth Manchester Regiment Collector Rank, Prize & Trade Badges British & Commonwealth Artillery Badges |
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An individualist, perhaps?
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AO 403 of 1915 introduced the badge, ordered it to be worn upper right, but did not say it was a badge of appointment. I think that soldiers regarded it [with some justification] as a skill-at-arms, so they simply sewed it in the S-at-A position. I have as many photos of the badge lower left as upper right. Not terribly important in a war perhaps?
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My thanks to all those who have contributed to this thread but as yet no-one has identified the regiment from which he came.
Thoughts appreciated. Jon |
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The book is titled Lost Tommies by Ross Coulthard
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