Tower Hamlets Rifles - Sealed Pattern

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by KLR

I'm going to the NA in a week or two - mostly for 17th c material but I'll drag myself into the 20th century for you ! So I will look up post (1st) war records but I don't have any immediate plans to go to NAM (still haven't been since their rebuilding !)
Actually I wouldn't know a Hackney badge if I fell over one so I'll go for 17th Bn, Hackney Rifles - are there any other titles ???




Jelly. I just found details of 17th Bn


the badge (presumably the same badge as in 1915) received the 'new / regular 4 digit Patt no 8988/1916 on 27.06.1916

So 1915, the Pattern No. was:

a) 616/1915

...and then in 1916:

b) Pattern No. 8988/1916

I wonder if it was the same badge as in 1915?

Would the two examples below qualify as different patterns or simply makers' variations?



No, I'm pushing it too far.

[KLR]

I'm not sure what the badge was at it's inception in 1908 BUT I strongly suspect that it was the same in 1915.
The only bit of information for the 1916 badge is that it was blackened !

(or was it blackened from the beginning -1908 ??)


I don't know what 32/18642 is (though there are lots of wonderful things in WO32). What I intended to look at is WO 359 which is the records of the RACD up to ?1939. Secondly, I will look at the The Ministry of Supply 1939-46 contracts ledger for metal cap badges TNA SUPP 4/152


J

[KLR]

I went to the National Archives the other day and found a reference to the 17th Bn London Regt in WO/359/19 p69
To whit - a new design cap badge was authorised / sealed on 28th May 1938 as Pattern 11281/1938 (and as CB 134). It superseded Patt 4029 (not sure which year).


I suspect that the Sealed Patterns may be at the IWM.

[Jelly Terror]

Originally Posted by KLR

I went to the National Archives the other day and found a reference to the 17th Bn London Regt in WO/359/19 p69
To whit - a new design cap badge was authorised / sealed on 28th May 1938 as Pattern 11281/1938 (and as CB 134). It superseded Patt 4029 (not sure which year).


I suspect that the Sealed Patterns may be at the IWM.

Julian,

I very much appreciate your kind assistance with this, and thank you for taking time out of your visit to look this up. Really very kind of you. Thank you.

JT