And Yet another Australian

[Brian0338]

Another new member, joined this morning, retired soldier and interested in anything military are more than half my life in the Australian army. I live in SE Queensland, and have some badges I am willing to get rid of to collectors, during my service I collected lots of badges, had them in a trunk, and gave them to a real collector some years ago, then found some others recently, but most of what I have are formation signs we used to wear in the 50s and 60s on both our summer dress (KDs or Khaki Drill) uniforms and battle dress uniforms, then they went the way of many other badges that are no longer seen, or at least, not by me when I go to the odd military parade.

Anyway, enough waffle, glad I found the site, and glad to be a member of, from what I have read so far, is great, and will be the means for me to spend many hours of browsing the various threads.

[slick_mick]

Hi Brian,

Welcome!

Always good to have another Queenslander on board!

Let me know what trades you may have.

Mick

[Brian0338]

for Slick Mick in particular. I do have some badges etc, the remainder that I found in my old army trunk not long ago, but not sure if they are worth anything, and I dont collect badges any more, used to many years ago and gave my collecton, mostly South African and Canadian badges that my Dad collected for me during WW2. The stuff I have now, and not sure if worth anything, are as follows
1. a copy of the book Gallant and Distinguished Service Vietnam 1962-1973, it is the soft cover copy.
2. A round badge with a St Andrews Cross in the centre on which is an animal of some sort like a deet, and the words Strike Sure, then on the top the word London and below the circle Scottish, and all surrounded by a wreath. Has what remains of a pin fitting lug on the back, and appears to be silver embossed onto bone all contained in a silver surround.
3. an Artillery badge that is fixed to what appears to be a .303 rifle with bayonet attached, not sure if was intended perhaps for the girlfriend of a gunner to wear, or something else It is small, the rifle is 5cm long, gunner badge centred and is 2.5 cm.
4.Australian Cloth formation signs for Norther, Eastern and Southern Command plus Army Headquarters, 1st Indep Inf Bde, 28 C'wealth Bde, United Nations (the round patch) and another that is gold bullion on a red background a mailed fist holding a Kris, a gold coloured WO1 badge and a bullion WO1 badge on blue cloth, both Lion and Unicorn Imperial style pre Aust having their own Aust coat of arms WO1 badge, an RAASC Other rank hat badge, some odd current badges like RACT, RAAOC, RMC, black rising sun collar badge with Kings crown, volour patch for 3rd Aust Inf Bn (green and brown horizontal halves) Interservice sport badges for Army, Navy and RAAF, Sports Badge SQ Area Sport.
could be other stuff somewhere, but would have to go through more boxes of stuff I have never seemed to throw away, but must do one day

[slick_mick]

Private Message (PM) sent.

Mick

[Mike]

Hi Brian,

here are your images that you sent to me via email,
I have enlarged them slightly.

The silver rifle (royal artillery) and London Scottish are sweetheart broaches.

I'm clueless regarding the cloth item.


identifying the cap badge on the soldier in the photo is not possible as enlarging makes it grainy, so we need a higher resolution scan to be in with a chance.

[Mike]

New images. anyone care to guess this badge ? photo from 1920s. Not an easy one. Yeomanry??

[John L]

The cloth badge is the 19th Indian Division

John

[Brian0338]

Originally Posted by Mike

Hi Brian,

here are your images that you sent to me via email,
I have enlarged them slightly.

The silver rifle (royal artillery) and London Scottish are sweetheart broaches.

I'm clueless regarding the cloth item.


identifying the cap badge on the soldier in the photo is not possible as enlarging makes it grainy, so we need a higher resolution scan to be in with a chance.

Thanks to Mike and his clue that about the two small badges being Sweetheart Badges, the Secretary of the London Scottish Association has just advised me that the most recent sale of their sweetheart badge, toirtose shell with sterling silver surround sold for 95 British pounds and we found the same of the Artillery Sweetheart badge, gold and sterling silver that sold for $80 Australian cos i met an ex Aust gunner who bought it, he got it from a dealer in Canada of all places, and got it for his wife to wear to RAA reunions on her jacket or when he wears his medals to various things, he said he had been searching for one of this type for years, had only seen them when he was in Malays and a wife of a 45 Regt bloke was wearing one.