Request for Research Assistance.....

[QSAMIKE]

Hello Everyone.....

As every one who knows me knows that I am not really a badge collector, I just like to put the correct badge that would have been worn with the medals in a display.....

I have just obtained a group of medals from the Boer War to World War One to a Gentleman who served as a civilian during the Boer War as "Chief Clerk To Financial Adviser" he was officially Staff Officer the Clerical Establishment of the Ordnance Factories, his medal is named to him as a Civilian with the title "Esquire".....

His World War One medals are named to a Colonel and of course no regiment. He is listed as "ARMY HEAQUARTERS STAFF, CAIRO AND JERUSALEM, financial advisor to General Edmund Allenby etc General Staff".

There is another hand written notation by the previous owner "Attatched to Staff of Colonel T. E. Lawrence during Arab Revolt as Financial Liason between British and French Governments, 1916 to 1920", this I have to really check.

Now to get to my question......

What Cap and Collars would he have worn on his uniform as I cannot find anything in K. and K. under Army Audit and Accounting Department

Thanks for your help.....

Mike

[Alan O]

As a Colonel he would have worn General Staff and staff gorgets.

[QSAMIKE]

Thank You I will have to buy a set.... Mike

[KLR]

Here are the insignia for a staff officer.
Bullion cap badge and red gorgets.

[QSAMIKE]

Thank You..... Mike

[CAM]

Originally Posted by QSAMIKE

Hello Everyone.....

As every one who knows me knows that I am not really a badge collector, I just like to put the correct badge that would have been worn with the medals in a display.....

I have just obtained a group of medals from the Boer War to World War One to a Gentleman who served as a civilian during the Boer War as "Chief Clerk To Financial Adviser" he was officially Staff Officer the Clerical Establishment of the Ordnance Factories, his medal is named to him as a Civilian with the title "Esquire".....

His World War One medals are named to a Colonel and of course no regiment. He is listed as "ARMY HEAQUARTERS STAFF, CAIRO AND JERUSALEM, financial advisor to General Edmund Allenby etc General Staff".

There is another hand written notation by the previous owner "Attatched to Staff of Colonel T. E. Lawrence during Arab Revolt as Financial Liason between British and French Governments, 1916 to 1920", this I have to really check.

Now to get to my question......

What Cap and Collars would he have worn on his uniform as I cannot find anything in K. and K. under Army Audit and Accounting Department

Thanks for your help.....

Mike

This, I know, is out of nowhere and I am not a medal collector but weren't civil servants in a Theatre of War entitled to campaign medals?

[QSAMIKE]

Depends what is written in Army Order of the time...... Some were some were not.....

Mike