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Old 20-09-21, 09:16 PM
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Default Fused grenade with St George ERII

Hi All,

Here's one more I need help with.

A g/m fused grenade with w/m St George (I presume) ahorse. St Edward's (ERII) crown.

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Old 20-09-21, 09:27 PM
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It’s a Royal Regiment of Fusiliers cap badge, Tom.
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Old 20-09-21, 09:41 PM
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It’s a Royal Regiment of Fusiliers cap badge, Tom.
Thank you. I'm crap after 1918. And quite crap before that too!
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Old 21-09-21, 03:45 AM
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Also worn by Fusilier Brigade prior to the amalgamation of its four component regiments to form RRF.
If the fittings are rounded wire loops it's a Fusilier Brigade badge, if pierced flat bars a RRF badge although the Brigade badges continued in wear with RRF as from the front the badges were the same. Both types had hackle fittings.
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Old 21-09-21, 07:51 AM
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Also worn by Fusilier Brigade prior to the amalgamation of its four component regiments to form RRF.
If the fittings are rounded wire loops it's a Fusilier Brigade badge, if pierced flat bars a RRF badge although the Brigade badges continued in wear with RRF as from the front the badges were the same. Both types had hackle fittings.
Now THAT is the sort of intel you just can't get from Kipling and King! Thanks, Leigh
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Old 21-09-21, 08:49 AM
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Ah, but you can from "Anodised Aluminium: The 'No Bull' Cap Badge of the British Army" by Chris Marsh (and from my joining RRF during the early 1970's and noting the difference between most beret and collar badges being worn and some of those still worn by old sweats).
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Old 21-09-21, 10:33 AM
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Also worn by Fusilier Brigade prior to the amalgamation of its four component regiments to form RRF.
If the fittings are rounded wire loops it's a Fusilier Brigade badge, if pierced flat bars a RRF badge although the Brigade badges continued in wear with RRF as from the front the badges were the same. Both types had hackle fittings.
Just had a look at the back. It doesn't appear to be either of those fittings. What do you reckon?

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It looks like a badge that features on the regiment's PRI site, subject of a thread:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ight=Fusiliers

But the badge you're showing the rear of isn't the badge you show in post no. 1.
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It looks like a badge that features on the regiment's PRI site, subject of a thread:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ight=Fusiliers

But the badge you're showing the rear of isn't the badge you show in post no. 1.
Sorry about that! I don't normally start drinking until 11 o'clock in the morning!

I was confusing it with a similar grenade badge with POW's feathers on it that I haven't yet ID'd.

I've now looked at my RRF badge and it's the regiment not the brigade. Thank you!
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Old 21-09-21, 01:23 PM
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Possibility your grenade with screw posts may be for attachment to an officer's bullion braid epaulette?
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