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WWI Simplified Metal Shoulder Titles
The following is an extract from the Register of the Army Clothing Factory Pimlico - National Archives File WO359/15.
Not sure if it's been aired before. Jon 10.2.1916 Titles Gilding Metal – The following are approved as a temporary measure for the duration of the war: Royal Berks to R Berks R Inniskilling to R Innisk Royal Irish to R Irish E Lancashire to E Lancs N Lancashire to N Lancs Northampton to Northants Royal Scots to R Scots N Stafford to N Staffs S Stafford to S Staffs Royal Sussex to R Sussex Duke of Wellingtons to DofW’s Yorkshire to KOYLI |
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Thank you Jon
There were others also. Attached from WO359 vol 16 the entry that rescinded the simplified titles in 1919. There are 26 Infantry titles in this entry that were simplified You can see the pattern numbers with the designation. I only copied page 123 as I was interested in the Royal Irish Regiment and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers only. The list runs on to p 124 and one can see 3 other entries from that part of the list in the scan of p 124. Notice that the K.O.Y.L.I. has a 1919 SPN number. John |
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John,
Thanks for the extra details. I noted that there were others but did not compile a complete list. Interesting to see the cancellation details. Jon |
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Many thanks John and Jon
I've seen several wartime photos of the KOYLI title worn with the generic bugle and was wondering about the discrepancy with Westlake who says the KOYLI title was introduced in 1921. Attachment 146118 |
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Is any one able to decipher the text at the top !! Please. |
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A related extract from the same series
27/4/1916; Back plate issue to be discontinued where a shoulder title is in one piece. ‘The saving of metal will be considerable.’ Jon |
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WW1 SIMPLIFIED TITLES
Hi
When would these simplified titles have reached the troops in the field?. Regards Talos |
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I cannot give you a direct answer on this. By way of comparison let's look as another war-time initiative, the manufacture of many Infantry cap badges previously made in bi-metal in gilding metal only. The order authorizing the project was approved on 29-Feb-1916. A modification was made on 15-March-1916 to exclude some regimental designs from the list. The company Bent & Parker received manufacturing contracts which included some of these temporary all gilding metal badges on 17-April-1916. Usually the War Office ordered existing stocks of badges used up before their replacements were to be issued . So orders for all GM badges were being placed within 2 months of the authorization of the project in the case of the company Bent & Parker. How long it took for badges to make it into the field I guess depends on when existing stocks were run out and/or the new ones began to be issued to recruits and as replacements. I know of no data to pin down dates on this aspect. A full description of the cap badge project can be found in Cap Badges of The First World War part 1 - the regular forces by Julian Bowsher & David Linaker, The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, vol 66, no. 262, Nov. 2015, p 78-88. John |
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Here is my transcription of the two, separate, entries on page 123. " ACD/35693 28.4.19 “Titles shoulder embd. no further provision. Titles shoulder embroidered, which were sealed as a war measure only, when metal was scarce _ (word not visible) no longer be permitted. Dues in ? (word not visible) have been cancelled. The patterns are to be retained for a little while longer, and when stocks are used up metal titles will be reverted to.” “Titles Shoulder abbreviated made obsolete. The following abbreviated shoulder titles, approved as a temporary measure for the period of the war are made obsolete, and future provision will be made of the ordinary pattern (Gilding Metal).” The IWM have many of the war measure (may I say "economy" as it does look as if this embroidered shoulder title project WAS to save metal) embroidered title sealed pattern cards. Here is the one for The Royal Irish Regiment. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30073312 John |
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