Tyneside Irish Badge

[John Mulcahy]

These Tyneside Irish Badges with slider might be around for longer than we think, I was reading through the Buletin of the Military Historical Society, vol V no. 18 November 1954 and came across the following in relation to a review of the book "Irish Heroes in the War" ...

"It is, incidentally, of interest to note that in all the photographs reproduced in this book, all ranks are wearing ordinary Northumberland Fusiliers cap badges, so notwithstanding that specimens of the "Connaught Rangers" type of Tyneside Irish badge are found with hooks-apparently for use as cap badges-it would seem that these were worn, accompanied by the appropriate numeral, as shoulder titles only

I assume that "hook" is a slider fitment and thus it looks to me as if restrikes of this shoulder title badge with slider were known as early as 1954.

John