106th Lines of Communication Area India

[Postwarden]

Colonel Howard Cole illustrates the attached badge for this Indian Army formation, a description of which appears in an official list of Indian signs compiled in early 1945.

I've never seen an example despite a lot of looking and I don't believe it ever existed as a cloth badge - but I'm hoping someone may be able to prove me wrong.

Anyone ever seen one? Or better still got an example?

Jon

[Mike Jackson]

Originally Posted by Postwarden

Colonel Howard Cole illustrates the attached badge for this Indian Army formation, a description of which appears in an official list of Indian signs compiled in early 1945.

I've never seen an example despite a lot of looking and I don't believe it ever existed as a cloth badge - but I'm hoping someone may be able to prove me wrong.

Anyone ever seen one? Or better still got an example?

Jon

I regret to say - No - on both counts. Interesting that the sign did not feature in the Second Edition of Heraldry in War (Apr 47) but was included in the Third Edition (May 50). If you had asked me when I was in Kathmandu 2001 I could have had a handful stitched up in a couple of days for about 25 pence each! An assiduous search of bazaar tailors in Hyderabad and northern Madras Province is called for. Mike

[Postwarden]

Mike,

Great idea. An opportunity for an Antique Badge Road Trip. Do you think we can get the BBC interested?

Jon

Originally Posted by Mike Jackson

I regret to say - No - on both counts. Interesting that the sign did not feature in the Second Edition of Heraldry in War (Apr 47) but was included in the Third Edition (May 50). If you had asked me when I was in Kathmandu 2001 I could have had a handful stitched up in a couple of days for about 25 pence each! An assiduous search of bazaar tailors in Hyderabad and northern Madras Province is called for. Mike