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Is this the same variant on the FS Fighting Knife flash - as worn by LCpl Artie Horner?
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They were certainly wild times full of opportunity for anyone wanting to volunteer for hazardous duties. |
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Certainly an unusual pattern. Just working out the scale, on the basis of the length of the tommy gun on a std comb ops being 57mm, I calculate the length of the dagger on the badge to be ~49mm.
The 'standard' embroidered dagger badge dagger measures 53mm. The only smaller one I have (which also has a wavy cross guard) the dagger measures a tiny 34mm. Also it appears to have embroidery on the hilt and cross guard which is different again to both my examples, so this looks like a new variant I've not seen before.
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And the length of the dagger portion of the printed late-War Commando Group formation sign was 55mm ((the sign being 72mm overall (measured to fold lines). Mike
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I can hear the dealers now, thumbing through their boxes, trying to find the 'special SBS' pattern dagger patch and adding a 0 to the price
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Given the Cash tape in the grouping it appears a bit of a 'hybrid' in terms of sources from which issues were gathered (even a 'mongrel') - it just goes to show that 'anything goes' - I bet there were almost as many combinations as there were men in the unit - certainly 'Gruff' Courtney was not a man for bumf.
All the best Mike PS - I heard he was buried in a remote location (Africa somewhere) with a tube extending to his mouth so that his brother, and visitors, could pour him a tot now and again. Last edited by Mike B; 23-01-17 at 02:54 PM. Reason: clarification |
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