AAC cap badge with flat lugs & backing plate
My latest acquisition, with which I am quite chuffed!
When I made the purchase, I was aware that it had the relatively scarce flat lugs, but did not know until I opened the package that it also had an original backing plate. I have only seen one with a backing plate once before, which belonged to one of my grandfather's friends from the Glider Pilot Regiment.
There is a name (rather crudely) scratched onto the backing plate, which matches the name of an officer who transferred from the Gordon Highlanders to the GPR in mid-1945. Unfortunately, the name is not possible to discern on the attached photographs, due to lighting and the fact that it was only lightly scratched onto the surface.
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