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Old 22-08-10, 04:55 PM
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hello any help with these please,searching through my late fathers belongings & found these,i guess the top 1 is the gurka regiment,got a few cap badgebooks but nothing on these.thanks
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Old 22-08-10, 05:09 PM
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Crossed Kukris is a Gurkha Brigade (63rd?) - Correction Crossed Kukris on dark green is 17th Gurkha Division - Post War in Malaya.
Stonehenge is Salisbury Plain District, Southern Command
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hi thanks very much when you say stonehenge southern command,what regiment would that be
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Old 22-08-10, 09:02 PM
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Generally speaking, Salisbury Plain District was a sub-HQ of Southern Command. It undertook an administrative rather than an operational command of all 'static' units based within its geographical area. The exact dimension of which I do not know but it included Salisbury Plain & Wiltshire: post 1944 this included Dorset as well.
Static units were non-Field Force. i.e. training units, PoW Camps, barrack staff, local defence units plus the administration of the Home Guard. Home Guard themselves would not have worn the badges though.

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thankyou very much stephen.
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