CWGC headstone error - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

Peter Brydon · #1 15-02-22, 09:57 AM

I am a late comer to social media and there is a lot of rubbish on it but you can sometimes separate the wheat from the chaff.

I saw a CWGC headstone on a Facebook site about the Home Guard, the headstone commemorated a Lieutenant from Kirkham near Preston who was in the 6th Battalion Lancashire Home Guard but the badge on the headstone is that of the Kings Liverpools.

I put the picture of the headstone on my Kings Liverpool Regiment Facebook group and it turned out one of the members was a Volunteer with the CWGC and reported the headstone to her manager, the error has now been acknowledged and in due course the headstone is going to be replaced ( after 70 odd years) with one showing the correct cap badge !

P.

gurkharifles · #2 15-02-22, 10:38 AM

Thanks Peter - the CWGC will always correct a headstone if any information is incorrect - and I have been wondering as to whether one of the graves I look after has the correct badge. The initial information I was given from the CWGC about the grave was that he was Royal Artillery - and that's the badge I expected to find on the headstone - so the Argyll's badge sort of threw me, until I saw that that the the full regimental inscription was 54th L.A.A. Regt R.A (A&S.H) T.A - so is the A&SH badge the correct one? Tim

Peter Brydon · #3 15-02-22, 11:07 AM

Thanks Tim,

Good to know that errors will be corrected even after all this time, it always seems strange that some Liverpool Territorial and Pals headstones have the “correct” badge whilst others have the Kings Liverpool Regiment cap badge on them.

Peter.

Wmr-RHB · #4 16-02-22, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by gurkharifles

Thanks Peter - the CWGC will always correct a headstone if any information is incorrect - and I have been wondering as to whether one of the graves I look after has the correct badge. The initial information I was given from the CWGC about the grave was that he was Royal Artillery - and that's the badge I expected to find on the headstone - so the Argyll's badge sort of threw me, until I saw that that the the full regimental inscription was 54th L.A.A. Regt R.A (A&S.H) T.A - so is the A&SH badge the correct one? Tim

Norman E. H. Lichfield in The Territorial Artillery 1908 - 1988

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Upon conversion to artillery 54th LAA Regt. R.A. retained the right to wear the Argyll's bonnet and cap badge. .......

I have this wrong in my web site

and will correct that.

gurkharifles · #5 16-02-22, 10:06 AM

Thanks Henk - appreciate that. I'm sure they were very precious of that right to the badge.

Wmr-RHB · #6 16-02-22, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by gurkharifles

I'm sure they were very precious of that right to the badge.

I guess so

BTW, the same is true for 91st and 93rd Anti-Tank Regiment, RA (ASH). Probably also for
58th LAA, although I could not find a quote for that.

And I always wondered how they managed to get the numbers 91 and 93 allocated. Very fitting.