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White metal KRRC, what is this badge please?
Hello,
Had this a few years, no idea if it's KRRC vols or Territorials? Or rubbish of course! Please can you help Cheers Chris |
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Chris,
I believe its the latter. regards
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Simon Butterworth Manchester Regiment Collector Rank, Prize & Trade Badges British & Commonwealth Artillery Badges |
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Ha ha, cheers for that, is a fantasy of some sort?
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Dud and yes fantasy.
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Mag to grid for that one then!
Cheers both of you Chris |
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1970's fantasy supposedly for a militia battalion. The KRRC did not have TF Bns as their VBs became to London Regiment in 1908.
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I don't know if this is a modern repro' badge, but I do know that genuine badges like this do exist.
I have one that my father picked up when he was in the 60th in WWII. I have never been able to find out what it is, but someone once had the theory that these were standard KRRC badges that had been "dipped". I have no idea why. My father was in a QVR battalion that wore standard KRRC badges.
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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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I am afraid that I will not be able to do that as my camera is u/s. I also don't have a mobile phone. I don't need to be contacted these days, and don't want random people trying to sell me PPI or double glazing when I am sitting in the park in the sun, or standing in the queue at the post office.
In the meanwhile, I am posting some scans, and hope they are clear enough. If not, let me know and I will see what I can do. I know these items to be from WWII. My father put all the badges, flashes etc he had got his hands on in a box when he got out of the army in 1947. He then got that box out of the loft to give to me when I started collecting in the 1960s. I don't know if it is clear but, when I was young and foolish I scraped some of the plating off the slider, and saw that it is the same yellow metal as a standard KRRC badge. Even back then I was not crazy enough to scrape the actual badge. Maybe the length of the slider might say something? The conclusion I came to was that somebody had cleaned the paint off some standard KRRC badges, and plated them. I have no idea why, unless it was some sort of a fad in 8th KRRC (2nd QVR)?
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