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19-11-10, 09:47 AM
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Officers badges ( again )
I have just acquired a Nothumberland Fusiliers officers WW2 battledress blouse ( dated 1943 ), service dress cap and great coat.
The interesting thing is that on the service dress cap there are very nice mounted silver and gilt side buttons for the chin strap but the cap badge is a bi metal one with a slider. There are no signs that any other badge has ever been on the cap only a single hole for a slider. This to me confirms what I have always believed, that is that officers and soldiers ( especially in war time ) often wore whatever insignia was available rather that what they perhaps should have been wearing. P.B.
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19-11-10, 11:22 AM
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Perhaps a wartime commission in the field and able to obtain a "spare hat" but not a officer quality badge so used his o.r. badge........??
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19-11-10, 04:34 PM
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Northumberland Fusiliers
Peter, I notice that he has a metal shoulder title under his pips as well as a cloth title below that. This is most unusual I would say, a friend of mine had a WWII battledress and side cap to an officer of the Cambridgeshire regt with an O/R's brass collar badge as a cap badge.
Military badges are definitely not an exact science . . !
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19-11-10, 05:17 PM
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This to me confirms what I have always believed, that is that officers and soldiers ( especially in war time ) often wore whatever insignia was available rather that what they perhaps should have been wearing.
P.B.[/QUOTE] I plain and simple fact that many collectors have a hard time accepting! CB
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19-11-10, 10:26 PM
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Hi CB,
It certainly puts weight behind the theory of officers' wearing lugged bronze collar badges as cap badges and possibly why some dealers still insist on describing them as cap badges..............one of my pet hates !  Dave.
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19-11-10, 11:08 PM
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Officers badges
Dave, I agree with you about dealers selling lugged badges as OSD cap badges.
Recently I bought a box of badges/buttons consisting of:- 6 pips, 4 x large, 6 x small buttons, 2 x collars (JR Gaunt stamped on the back) and a lugged OSD badge, which was a different construction to the collars. This to my mind was a genuine lot, no question of it being sold as a cap badge and collars, what I saw is what I bought, whether the Officers cap had been discarded and he happened to carry a spare osd collar in his pocket could be debated till hell freezes over, but from my experience, officers badges come in all shapes and fixings. By the way, unless I'm given the provenance, my OSD's have blades. Rob
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