Captain's rank badge on cloth strip.

[High Wood]

A pair of these cloth strips came as part of a WW2 Leicestershire Regiment officer's group. I have never seen the like of them before and I wonder what their significance is.

[cbuehler]

Very strange! What are the reverses like? I see a string showing at the top. Are they loops for slipping over a strap?

[High Wood]

They are quite narrow at just over one inch wide and three inches in length. They are not a matching pair but clearly belong together. They might not be related to the Leicester Regiment group other than by family, possibly a father and son group from the same house clearance.

[Home Guard]

Could they be something that was done after the war as a sort of memento type thing???

Terry

[cbuehler]

Ah, they are small and not some sort of slip on as I was initially thinking.
Probably they are something created as a memento or something as Terry mentioned.

CB

[High Wood]

They look like they might have been collar tabs that someone has added very small officers' rank badges to.

Is there any significance in the colours used? Sewing red stripes on a cream background seems like a lot of faffing about if there is no reason for it.