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[Home Guard]

Love the QARNNS tippet badge!!!

Terry

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Thanks for your thoughts.
I was excited to get the Naval Hospital Senior Attendant cap badge.
Barry

[Home Guard]

Oh yes!!! I wa snot familiar with it so missed it. Very nice indeed!

Terry

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[Alex Rice]

I love the cotton embroidered wartime economy badge, must be a rare thing.
Cheers,
Alex

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Thanks for your comment.
I have never seen an embroidered Pattern 47 badge before either, but I do know that there are 3 Pattern 47 badges listed in the NZ Navy stores lists post 1943.
All badges have different prices with the NZ made badge being less than half the price of the standard gold wire pattern 47 badge.
The other badge is described as a Pattern 47 badge but in metal.
I think the badge is a New Zealand made example.
Barry

[Alex Rice]

Hi Barry
Thanks for the info. I suspect you are correct, I doubt if there are many of them around.
Cheers,
Alex

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[Lemataf]

Hi Barry,

Nice lot, as always.

A question / comment though: while I was resident in the UK, I was said by an english collector that such blue lines on kit bags were put only on air force ones. I learned actually this when one day I found a similar one, and acquired it, thinking it was a navy one -and still have it somewhere-. Any thought on this?

All the best,

JD

[royston]

Certainly my RN kitbag of 1959 never had a blue line and was brown in colour. But what happened before that date I am not aware of. All the kitbags on my first ship, of which there must have been some late wartime ratings, were the same brown colour. Although that was for UK. NZ may well have been different.

John

[mike_vee]

Originally Posted by royston

Although that was for UK. NZ may well have been different.

From Air Force Museum of New Zealand.

White bag with either one or two stripes was used to transport the belongings of airmen embarking for service overseas, :

A single band indicated that the owner would not require the bag in transit so it went into the ship’s hold. Two bands indicated that the bag was to be placed in the cabin where the owner could access its contents.

This system was further refined in December 1943 with different colours indicating different destinations, with red bands indicating those en route to Canada, yellow to the United Kingdom and blue to the Pacific.

https://www.airforcemuseum.co.nz/blo...tore-kit-bags/


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[Lemataf]

Hi Mike, John,

Thank you for your comments, interesting ones, which confirm then what I was said.

Cheers,

JD

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Thanks for posting the information about RNZAF kit bags from the Air Force of New Zealand.
As for the New Zealand naval use of striped kit bags - In my NZ naval book I am including a 1 blue stripe kit bag that is named to a Sub Lt (A)...... and the 2 blue stripe kit bag (above) which is named to a Mr Thacker SS Orion, a merchant navy man.
So yes, both navy and Merchant navy used stripes on kit bags.
Barry