Please help with a few Collar Badges - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

davidguthrie · #1 05-11-16, 11:42 PM

Recently picked up a small collection of badges. Have posted a few here that I could not identify regiment and/or age, hoping for some help on identification & era, maybe rarity/value.
Thanks in advance.

irishhorse · #2 06-11-16, 12:33 AM

Top badge is Royal Irish Fusiliers.

ebro · #3 06-11-16, 12:58 AM

1 Royal Irish Fusiliers
3 Loyal North Lancs
5 Royal Army Medical Corps.

Eddie

Malcolm Davey · #4 06-11-16, 01:56 AM

No 3 also worn by the Lincolnshire Yeomanry ww1
Malc

badjez · #5 06-11-16, 06:50 AM

No 5 is RAMC Vols in all white metal, unless my eyes are playing me up- it has a small VOLS plaque on it.
No4 is one of the Staffs regiments, but offhand unsure which.

Malcolm, didn't the Lincs Yeo wear the white metal version, and No3 is the Lancs?

Stephen.

Mercian · #6 06-11-16, 11:30 AM

No 4 is the North Stafford's

davidguthrie · #7 06-11-16, 03:05 PM

Thanks for all the replies so far.

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Originally Posted by badjez

No 5 is RAMC Vols in all white metal, unless my eyes are playing me up- it has a small VOLS plaque on it. ...

Yes, there is a "VOLs" on the badge. Would this be WWII era, or earlier?

davidguthrie · #8 06-11-16, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by irishhorse

Top badge is Royal Irish Fusiliers.

How early would this badge be? Note that there is an "8" at the bottom. What does that signify?

davidguthrie · #9 06-11-16, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Mercian

No 4 is the North Stafford's

Is this badge WWII era, or earlier? Is this bi-metal, or just the way it is plated?

fougasse1940 · #10 06-11-16, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by davidguthrie

Is this badge WWII era, or earlier? Is this bi-metal, or just the way it is plated?

Churchill p. 246: Bi-metal North Staffordshire OR's collar badge pattern 4493, sealed 13th February 1897, replaced "when existing stocks are exhausted" by pattern 4277c sealed on 18th January 1901.
Incorrect design where the manufaturer mistook the description "plumes on the knot" litterally instead of over the knot.

Rgds, Thomas.

irishhorse · #11 06-11-16, 03:30 PM

First adopted c1879 and worn into the 1950s. The eagle with the 8 below. Represents the French eagle captured by the regiment in the Peninsula War.

fougasse1940 · #12 06-11-16, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by davidguthrie

How early would this badge be? Note that there is an "8" at the bottom. What does that signify?

Churchill p. 281: The 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot captured the eagle of the 8th French Light Infantry at the battle of Barossa during the Peninsula war on 5th March 1811. The eagle was authorised for wear on 11th April 1811.

Rgds, Thomas.

Alan O · #13 06-11-16, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by davidguthrie

Is this badge WWII era, or earlier? Is this bi-metal, or just the way it is plated?

If you want to sell it then I need one for my Victorian album.

Thanks

manchesters · #14 06-11-16, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by davidguthrie

Thanks for all the replies so far.

Yes, there is a "VOLs" on the badge. Would this be WWII era, or earlier?

The badge is 1902 - 1908 only.

regards

davidguthrie · #15 06-11-16, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by fougasse1940

Churchill p. 246: Bi-metal North Staffordshire OR's collar badge pattern 4493, sealed 13th February 1897, replaced "when existing stocks are exhausted" by pattern 4277c sealed on 18th January 1901.
Incorrect design where the manufaturer mistook the description "plumes on the knot" litterally instead of over the knot.

Rgds, Thomas.

Thanks so much for the info from Churchill's book.