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Old 26-05-22, 04:53 PM
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Hi guys

I recently acquired an interesting set of medals and was wondering if you can help me understand what sort of insignia would have been worn by a British officer in the following units... Frontier Garrison Artillery / 11 Pack Battery, 24 Indian Pack Brigade / 2 {Derajat} Mountain Battery, 22 Mountain Brigade / Mountain Artillery Training Center / 15 {Jhelum} Mountain Battery.

To serve in these units did he join the Indian Army and wear their insignia? Did these units have their own insignia?

Finally, did the 2nd Medium Regiment of Royal Artillery wear a formation patch when they were in France from 1939-1940?

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Ken
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Old 26-06-22, 02:59 PM
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The British Indian Army only had mountain batteries, which had RA officers assigned to them, until 1935, when the Indian Army Artillery was formed. So, the officers were from the British Army seconded in some way to the Indian Army until 1935, when they assumedly transferred to the Indian Army or joined it directly.
The service dress cap badge for officers until '35 was the regular British RA badge, afterwards changing to the Indian design, which looked almost the same, but with a star instead of a crown, "India" instead of Ubique and Izzat O Igbal instead of the Quo fas et gloria ducunt scroll.
The Indian Mountain Batteries were mostly all part of the Frontier Force and they had individual Pagri flashes worn on the the sun helmets up to WW2, so he would have worn flashes to those units on his helmet to the batteries you mentioned. I show a couple of examples showing how they appeared.
I cannot answer your last question regarding the 2nd Medium formation sign.

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