Welsh Dragon "Boss badge" missing it's "Boss" & Fixings

[billy]

Hi all, have this Silver Welsh Dragon looks like it has lost it's fixings along with its Boss, the Boss itself has anyone a spare perhaps? The badge I could sew back onto the Boss? but any other suggestions welcome? It's a lovely little item in it's own right and would like to put it to rights!

All the best billy

[leigh kitchen]

RWF officers, from bullion grenade badge?

[billy]

Hi Leigh right you are then not the Boss at all! but is it the metal Flaming grenade or the Gold wire over padding type?

[leigh kitchen]

Don't know I'm just wondering if that's what it is - Toby P will probably know.

[41st]

Certainlly looks to be from the standard grenade badge worn on both FSCs & side caps.

[JerryBB]

worn on cap and mess dress collars, the pattern of beast changed over time, your type I think is post 1920 but this has never been firmly established

[Mike H]

Originally Posted by JerryBB

worn on cap and mess dress collars, the pattern of beast changed over time, your type I think is post 1920 but this has never been firmly established

Very nice selection Jerry

[JerryBB]

Originally Posted by Mike H

Very nice selection Jerry

thanks.

I also have some on caps and jackets

[billy]

Nice lot of badges Jerry, also the Headgear and Mess dress

[JerryBB]

Originally Posted by billy

Nice lot of badges Jerry, also the Headgear and Mess dress

thanks Billy.

[41st]

Here you are Billy, I thought I had a Boss badge. I’ll get some close ups for you later to compare sizes & shapes etc.

[billy]

That's a lot of nice badges in there, Carmarthenshire "VTC" looks nice!

[41st]

Billy,
I’ve pulled out the relevant badges & checked the measurements as best I can given they’re bent to shape. As far as I can tell the boss badge (approx20mm) is slightly larger than the grenade cap badges (approx19mm), it is difficult to be certain because it is more of a domed shape.
What I can say is that the dragon on the collar badges is definitely larger (approx 20.7mm). Curiously I note that it is a dragon on this militia officer’s example when the regulars would have been wearing griffons at that time.
Hwyl,
Kevin

[leigh kitchen]

Originally Posted by JerryBB

worn on cap and mess dress collars, the pattern of beast changed over time, your type I think is post 1920 but this has never been firmly established

One that arrived a few days ago, affixed to an issue beret - the beret is stamped with a contract code indicating that it was manufacture around 1988.

[JerryBB]

there were two patterns of boss badge on ebay recently, one each of the earlier and later pattern beast, plus one of the cap/collar badges, I did not bid enough to win them.