Comrades of the Great War.

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Hello Mike

You might tire of me saying this but it is sincerely mean it when I say that I do learn so much from your posts!

This will all be filed away in my memory banks, believe me.

When I was setting up the group of badges (thanks for the compliment by the way! ) I was struck by the fact that the large 255 badge has the same numbering font as you see on Gaunt's Silver War Badge numbers (heavy, serifed numbers).

The smaller "telephone numbers" (because of their length...) must have been numbered in a matrix (much as the SWBs were, accounting for their regularity). Having said that, some SWBs were clearly numbered by someone whose eye was a bit "off", using individual number punches!

I did locate a Comrades badge in a small while cardboard box and am guessing that this was how it was given out. Will post a photo just for interest's sake.

I had a look at the badge with the banner and it is 1920, not '21 so Specsavers here I come....