More Unidentified badges

[Stanley_C_Jenkins]

Utterly bored by the endless repeats on UK television over the holiday period I have again retreated to my room and pulled out the cap badge box. I do not know if I can send more than one image, but this is one of the unidentified badges. It may not be military - perhaps it is something like a doorman's badge from Liberty?

[Stanley_C_Jenkins]

Here are two more unidentified badges SCJ_338.JPG SCJ_336.JPG

[Peter Brydon]

Hello,
"L" in wreath Gunlayer R.A.(Edwards and Langley 13A))

The first badge on the second post is a South Africa general service pattern badge and the second badge looks like Honorable Artillery Company.

P.B.

[BWEF]

Originally Posted by 8thfoot

....the second post is a South Africa general service pattern badge and the second badge looks like Honorable Artillery Company.

P.B.

Correct, it is the South African General Service badge.

It is possible to tell if it is WW1 or WW2 by the language used for the non English part of the badge.

"Union is Strength" was in Dutch on the WW1 badges. Between the wars the official language of the "Boers" became Afrikaans, so the motto on the WW2 badge was in that language.

I have both types in my own collection, but can't remember which is which these days.

Maybe a Dutch/South African member can advise?

[Stanley_C_Jenkins]

Here is another unidentified badge which came to me via the John M.Strange collection ("hoard" might have been a better description). It may of course be obvious to most people, but I cannot think what the initials refer to.

[Luke H]

Originally Posted by Stanley_C_Jenkins

Here is another unidentified badge which came to me via the John M.Strange collection ("hoard" might have been a better description). It may of course be obvious to most people, but I cannot think what the initials refer to.

Its a cap badge to 'The Queens Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)', known as the bays as from 1776 they were mounted on black bay chargers which is how they became known as The Bays.

Luke

[Alan O]

That one is in the style of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (the Queens Bays). It is however solid at the and of the wreath where as all the original versions are voided at either end where it meets the crown and the back reinforced with a bar. You do get solid Q/C ones but not usually k/c.

Alan

[nicksull]

Originally Posted by Stanley_C_Jenkins

Here is another unidentified badge which came to me via the John M.Strange collection ("hoard" might have been a better description). It may of course be obvious to most people, but I cannot think what the initials refer to.

Second Dragoons AKA The Queen's Bays

[johnG]

A few days ago I talked with an old HAC man, and according to him the sequence of events for the cap badge of the Infantry Battalion was:
Breass badge in use until the Coronation.
White metal badge introduced at time of Coronation.
Reverted back to brass badge after Coronation.
Brass b badge replaced by a gilded one.


I could not get a date for the switch to the gilded badge, of which I have one in my collection, together with a white metal one.

I am looking out for a replacement brass badge, and a 'Gold Serjeants' , having given my brass one to the THA in Johannesburg many years ago, and broken the HAC off my Gold Serjeants badge badge, and now lost the bits.

[Stanley_C_Jenkins]

This unidentified badge has recently been donated to the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Museum. It may be from somewhere in the Balkan area - possibly Albania or thereabouts? The crown is suggestive of one of the Eastern Orthodox countries.

[RobbieDubh]

Hello All.
My first post on the forum. The African badge is the badge of the "South African Scottish" Gilded metal also in white metal 1915-1919 this badge was worn with a backing of Athol Murray tartan. This regiment was a part of the Scottish 9th Div and took part in the action at Delville Wood in 1916.

Cheers RobbieDubh

[Sonofacqms]

I had one of these some years ago and I think it is Italian air force of the fascist period, WWII.

[lancashirefusilier]

Hello BWEF,
Owen attributes EENDRACHT MAAKT MACHT to a period ranging from 1916-1926
and EENDRAG MAAK MAG to 1927-1950
Cheers,
Dave.

[Stanley_C_Jenkins]

Here is a Norfolk badge which, I assume, is an officer's version. The other two are, as far as I am concerned, unknown items.

[BWEF]

Originally Posted by lancashirefusilier

Hello BWEF,
Owen attributes EENDRACHT MAAKT MACHT to a period ranging from 1916-1926
and EENDRAG MAAK MAG to 1927-1950
Cheers,
Dave.

Thanks for that Dave. I missed it when you first posted it.