Artillery badge to identify ? - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

sturgis · #1 01-01-22, 08:55 PM

I have a question about this cap badge. It is supposedly a Gunner who was posted to line the mall on the Queen's coronation but I can't pin down the cap badge even though the collar dogs appear to be artillery grenades? I was thinking maybe a Yeomanry-type artillery regiment ? Any insights are welcome.
Richard.

3dg · #2 02-01-22, 08:50 AM

Looks like the Wessex wyvern cap badge, with the solid WESSEX tablet on the bottom.
Could be way off, and odd with grenade collars?
Chris

mike_vee · #3 02-01-22, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by sturgis

It is supposedly a Gunner who was posted to line the mall on the Queen's coronation

National Archives has a map of the Coronation route and states :

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The troops lining the route will be; The Mall: Brigade of Guards; Trafalgar Square to the Abbey and back: Royal Navy, with Officer Cadets of all three Services in Parliament Square; Cockspur Street: Canadian Military Forces; Pall Mall to Marble Arch: The Army; and Oxford Street back to the Haymarket: Royal Air Force. Below are the approximate times of the return Procession.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...nation-map.jpg

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3dg · #4 02-01-22, 10:35 AM

If the photo is from a soldier from the coronation, then it can't be the Wessex cap badge as I believe that didn't come out until 1958.
Unless there is a cadet cap badge of similar Shape??
Chris

leigh kitchen · #5 02-01-22, 10:52 AM

Hadn't thought of Wessex, I wondered if it could be The Buffs but would there be a TA unit wearing RA collar badges?
Wessex looks good for the cap badge, but the collar badges?
The "Coronation route liner" could be a red herring.

grey_green_acorn · #6 02-01-22, 11:13 AM

410 (Kent) Coast Regiment formed part of 101 Coast Brigade. When the coast artillery branch was disbanded in 1956 the regiment was converted to the infantry role becoming 5th Battalion The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).

So perhaps a Buffs cap badge with Royal Artillery collar badges worn in the mid 1950s transition era?

Tim

sturgis · #7 02-01-22, 11:33 AM

Better photo ... I agree and leaning towards the Buffs (though the Brecknocks Btn. SWB is a closer fit to the badge but was that not out of use at the time or was it ? The Brecknockshire Battalion - reformed in 1939 and transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1947. according to Wikki..) ,, and looks like 'ubique' collar dogs ?