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South Wales Borderers Collars - Are they?
I have had these for way over 20 years, and in my complete ignorance thought they were from a Royal Anglian Regiment battalion as they were rather like the Lincolnshire Regiment badge. However, after seeing the clip from Zulu in the programme about the Royal Welsh on telly recently, I suddenly remembered that they may have been bought at the South Wales Borderers museum as a present.
I really hadn't ever given them a lot of thought, but after a bit of a shine, I thought I should really do something about them. Again, apologies for lack of knowledge. Glad they did away with guru status. I would never have felt comfortable with it! John |
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Toby,
The SWB wore both Male and Female Sphinx pattern collars. The Officers generally wearing the female pattern. The ones shown here look to me like Fig.665 Churchill. |
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Thank you for that 41st, it just goes to show what a minefield the Sphinx variations can be. I must admit that the head dress of the sphinx did not look quite like the Gloucestershire versions that I have seen, even though everything else fitted, but I thought it might have been a manufacturers variation.
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SWB collars
Both the Lincolnshire Regt and SWB were, at one time, authorised to wear identical OR collar badges: WM Sphinx. The Priced Vocabularies of Clothing & Necessaries show the identical badge for the volumnes published from 1929 until 1940 (after which collar badges weren't officially worn on battledress).
Stephen. |
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lincolnshire, south wales borderers, sphinx, wales |
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