Battalion badges of the London Regiment - Great War

[Drew]

'7t2ndSwinger', on the GWF, kindly informed me that the 29th, 30th, 31st and 32nd London Regiments wore a "Red [number] on black small rectangle" as a cloth S/T. I think he got his information from the IWM.

Regards,

Chris

[KLR]

There is an article on London Regt badges in, I think, the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, written by ? E Martin in the late 1930s.
Otherwise, there will be records at the NA under WO - mostly in the RACD papers.

[mooke07]

Thanks for making this a very enlightening thread on little known battalions of the London Regiment. Best regards Dean

[orasot]

These may be of interest Drew,
All the best,
Wilf.

[Peter Brydon]

The Forum at its absolute best.

P.B.

[manchesters]

Wilf,

What fantastic pieces.
Thanks for showing.

regards

[wardog]

Thanks Wilf! Regards, Paul.

[Drew]

That's absolutely fantastic Wilf, thank you so much.

Chris

[Arthur]

Thanks for sharing that information.

Regards
Arthur

[Postwarden]

Great stuff.

Jon

[Peter Brydon]

The article by Ernest Martin referred to by KLR is in the SAHR Journal ( I only have copies and not the actual Journal so cant say the date ) and whilst it is interesting and contains a lot of details on insignia there is probably more information today on this Forum and on the GWF than in the article.

(Couple of sample pages attached )

P.B.

[Alan O]

PB

On one page it dates the Rangers 3rd badge to 1937. Does it give a date for the rarer 2nd pattern one on the previous page?

Alan

[Peter Brydon]

Alan,

Please see attached.It just says "After the war of 1914-18........."


Peter

[KLR]

The artic;le was published in Volume XX - which I think was 1941 - pages 1-10. There are runs in a number of libraries.


Orasot's Pattern Cards illustrates exactly what I meant by RACD data - you'd get more from looking up their archives at the NA than any article which, as Peter says, is probably out of date now that WO papers are publicly accessible !

[Drew]

KLR, thanks for mentioning this journal, the articles look very interesting. Thanks also Peter, as I was just about to try and look it up.


Wilf, Sorry to bang on about it, but can I ask if the background for those cloth titles (29th - 32nd Londons), is khaki rather than black? It is just that I noticed that is how the IWM refers to them.
29th London Rgt. IWM

Cheers,

Chris

*Upon closer inspection of the actual photograph, ...Ahem, I think I answered my own question. Apologies.