Collar badge for ID please

[Tigerlily]

Morning all,

Any idea on this collar badge please?
The chap in question was Royal Fusiliers from at least 1909 right through to post First World War, but the collar looks like a curled leaf to me. Any help putting me out of my misery greatly appreciated.
Alli

[leigh kitchen]

Nah, looks like the RF "small" grenade collar / cap.

[Tigerlily]

Do you think? I thought it looked a bit like a sideways S shaped leaf, on the collar on the right. Looks weird.
Suits me to a tee if it looks like a grenade, cos that's what it should be. Anything else would bung a grenade in my research.

[mike_vee]

I definitely don't see a grenade on the right ?


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[Tigerlily]

Originally Posted by mike_vee

I definitely don't see a grenade on the right ?


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Yup I am also confusion.

[Hoot]

Definitely the RF grenade collar badges. Just a trick of the light.

[grenadierguardsman]

Two dragons ?
Andy

[mike_vee]

Sorry , seems I was wrong , I agree it is probably just a trick of the light.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rtrait_WWI.jpg

[leigh kitchen]

Yep, that's them, RF grenades.
Being a Fusilier they're so highly polished they dazzle the viewer.......

[rattle-watch1]

As soon as I saw the image it was Hong Kong Collar badges portraying Dragons. Consulted Volume 1 of British Colonial Badges Book by Barry & Margaret Renfrew and Bill Cranston. On page 157, Figures 931 & 932 show left and right collar badges. although they are shown against the HK Military Service Corps at later date (in chrome) they could have been a generic badge earlier in white metal. Anyway that is my interpretation for what its worth?????
Harry.

[leigh kitchen]

Originally Posted by Tigerlily

Do you think? I thought it looked a bit like a sideways S shaped leaf, on the collar on the right. Looks weird.
Suits me to a tee if it looks like a grenade, cos that's what it should be. Anything else would bung a grenade in my research.

Yep, just the ball of the grenade and flame viewed at an angle.

[Tigerlily]

Ooh er dragons, I still can't see the bottom of the grenade, weird, but they should definitely, definitely only be grenades, he was a career RF man. But now I can't get dragons out of my head��
Thanks for your input all. I think we can at least all agree he was a very smart man with an impressive tache.

[mike_vee]

Originally Posted by Tigerlily

I still can't see the bottom of the grenade

Left hand one appears round.



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[Tigerlily]

Originally Posted by mike_vee

Left hand one appears round.



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Agreed, and if you squint at the right one you can see the grenade flames and maybe the ball, just the bit sticking out under it makes it look weird.

[mike_vee]

If you give it the "thousand yard stare" (like the guy in this pic) , no one will disagree with you !