Artillery............the Gun badge

[Mike]

Just thought I would add my picture here, being delighted with this photo, taken today, poor light, dark clouds and rain outside (normal July weather) - which are good conditions for my photo technique.

almost unvoided crown with old polish! scrub it with the old toothbrush?... not on your nelly!

my first gun badge to be added to my collection, inspired by this thread. no ebay for this fella, came in a biscuit tin full of badges from a medal auction house..."badges not their thing"...I knew that by the number of restrikes in there, but there were some nuggets too...

also have a small group of miscellaneous stuff from ebay to arrive that has a humble RFA KC officers s.d. in it, fingers crossed it's going to be in as good condition as my HAC badge, and then I will have two

[Fred W]

Originally Posted by 54Bty

Someone asked for DEMS.

Badge worn by qualified Gunners of the Maritime Regiments Royal Artillery, who operated the anti aircraft equipment on the Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships, DEMS, (Don’t Ever Mention Ships).

I am trying to obtain a DEMS Gunlayer arm patch, can anyone help please?

Fred

[jeanpit-frenchy]

if it's like this !(mine has a piece of wreath broken ) you can found it for two GBP at LEW (dont know if metal or bullion )

http://freespace.virgin.net/lew.shotton/arm_badge.htm

cheers

[rubicon]

Salut Jeanpit,

DEMS was Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships. Personnel were attached to the RA Maritime Regiment a large WWII organisation of about 15.000 men mostly gunners who were embarked in Merchant ships to serve some defensive weapons. The badge is scarce and made like the Royal Navy non substantive badge pattern. Here is a picture of one of these badges.

A "Frenchy" myself, it is the first time I speak in English with another "Frenchy" since I went to school and spluttered some words to my late English teacher!!!

Salutations
J-F

[jeanpit-frenchy]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Salut Jeanpit,

DEMS was Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships. Personnel were attached to the RA Maritime Regiment a large WWII organisation of about 15.000 men mostly gunners who were embarked in Merchant ships to serve some defensive weapons. The badge is scarce and made like the Royal Navy non substantive badge pattern. Here is a picture of one of these badges.

A "Frenchy" myself, it is the first time I speak in English with another "Frenchy" since I went to school and spluttered some words to my late English teacher!!!

Salutations
J-F

hello J-F....

sorry for the mistake but your english is better than mine...

where are you living (for me it's DUNKERQUE )

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by jeanpit-frenchy

hello J-F....

sorry for the mistake but your english is better than mine...

where are you living (for me it's DUNKERQUE )

My teacher always told me I was speaking like a Spanish cow

[Op-Ack]

J-F and Rubicon

You should both be proud of yourselves, both your english is 100% better than my French!!

Phil

[Artynut]

Well that was certainly a treat running through those Arty badges! Now I'm alerted to even more varieties! As the first letter in the thread says, "Just how many could we come up with?" I could certainly add a few when I figure out how to do it.

[Artynut]

OOPS!...Screwed up already. Thought I was replying to a thread but made the title as "Artillery cap & beret badges"........It's in here somewhere. Ah well, back to learning how to navigate the site.

[54Bty]

Originally Posted by Op-Ack

J-F and Rubicon

You should both be proud of yourselves, both your english is 100% better than my French!!

Phil

Yow aint two gowd wit anglish effer.

[Peter Brydon]

Sorry to continue off thread,but I was not allowed to even take O level french because in the "mocks" I got 5% with the comment " Dreadful"

I have to admit being a little embarrassed that so many of our members are bi lingual

P.B.

[Op-Ack]

True...Very True, but it's still better than my French!

[wright241]

Originally Posted by 8thfoot

Sorry to continue off thread,but I was not allowed to even take O level french because in the "mocks" I got 5% with the comment " Dreadful"

I have to admit being a little embarrassed that so many of our members are bi lingual

P.B.

You're embarrassed P.B....... imagine how I feel, my x2 youngest have been going to local schools here for the last 10 years and my lad (19) can fluently speak and read/write in x4 bl..dy languages...... when I was at school in Brecon,
it was either Welsh or additional technical subjects. Join the club mate.
david

[Artynut]

What a wealth of information in the preceding pages, when I get a bit more conversant with being able to navigate here I would like to offer some more Artillery badge pics.
David J.

[Artynut]

Hope these pics are OK, I scanned them instead of trying to get clear photo's.