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#1
24-01-21, 01:30 PM
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General service lugged badge
Hello! What do you think about this GS badge? ...
20210124_140519.jpg If it is legit...when came the use of this metal circle?...it seems (because of the silouette on the metal plaque) to have been worn outside of the cap...something like this... Screenshot_20210124-142423.jpg Last edited by Trubia26; 24-01-21 at 01:40 PM. 
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24-01-21, 03:50 PM
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More likely to be a badge of rank for a Warrant Officer Class 1. Worn on the lower arm or on a leather wrist strap or cloth one like this. The brass backing plate would not be visible.
Tim
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24-01-21, 03:55 PM
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Here is a modern version on the leather wrist strap.
Tim
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#6
24-01-21, 03:59 PM
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The man in your photo is wearing a plastic General Service Corps cap badge on a coloured backing probably to indicate a particular squad or intake. Recruits wore the GS badge during initial training until allocated to a regiment or corps.
Brass backing plates have been in use since the 1900s or earlier. Tim
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#7
24-01-21, 04:01 PM
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24-01-21, 04:12 PM
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A few cap badges have backing plates usually because they are made up of more than one part. Examples (generally ‘modern’). Royal Signals, 6th Gurkha Rifles, Queen’s Highlanders.
One part badges include Royal Tank Regiment and Army Foundation College. Backing plates for shoulder titles, arm badges and collar badges exist in many forms. Tim
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#10
24-01-21, 04:23 PM
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Yes it is an arm badge. The cap badges had sliders but were the same design.
There was one coat of arm kings' crown cap badge with lugs and that was the short-lived Reserve Regiment cap badge worn circe 1902 which replaced the QVC one. The badge design was re-used in WW1 and issued with a slider and then in WW2 in reduced size.
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