First World War Badges

[8Hussar]

I found this letter written in August 1916 interesting in that it may have been something that I knew but just didn't realize that I knew. Harry Piers, the Curator of the Nova Scotia Museum at the time and the individual that gathered a lot of the Victorian material presently housed at The Army Museum in Halifax, wrote to the Quartermaster-General requesting copies of all of the badges of the Nova Scotian units raised for the CEF. The reply is that the government only issues the General List maple leaf badges. I realized that each unit designed their own badges but had assumed that, once approved, the government supplied them. This was obviously not the case

[Bill A]

Hi Gary, Your letter pre-dates the public purchase of badges by about a year. Approvals for badges were still required with the stipulation that the badges be acquired at no expense to the public.