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15-02-22, 03:51 AM
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what period these Dutch patches
hi all
can anyone tell me what these patches are and date them? cheers bc 
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15-02-22, 09:12 AM
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Your # 255: Dispatch Rider
Your # 258: Driver-Mechanic Your # 257 and # 259 are not in the list I found in "The Sleeve Badges of the Netherlands Army", but seem to belong to same set. The book says Instituted 1st March 1944 and Canceled 9th June 1944. The book is a bit unclear. It seems to talk about a first version "embroidered" and a second version "woven". It is unclear to me if 9th June 1944 marks the switch between the two. On the two Nationality patches. As I only can find khaki patches for the army and dark blue ones for Women Auxiliary Corps, I guess these blue ones are for the navy. The khaki/army version was introduced 15th November 1940 and canceled in 1951 (replaced by basically the same but with scroll "JE MAINTIENDRAI", worn until this day).
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15-02-22, 10:52 AM
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thanks Henk
these were found in pattern books from an australian manufacturer. seems like they made Dutch patches in WW2. how interesting thanks bc
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15-02-22, 11:07 PM
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I have seen a photograph of the wheel and star being worn by a bombardier in 6 Aust Fd Regt circa May 1943 while it was still in Tasmania, and the badge itself was available for sale from an outfitter in Queensland about mid 1944.
In a war diary of an Australian anti-tank unit in Queensland is reference that DR badges were unauthorised and were to be removed immediately. This may explain the unexplained embroidered badges identical to these that appear from time to time and were never Australian issue, including the steering wheel, steering wheel and star, artillery SNCO 'gun' arm badge, and crossed flags. Keith
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16-02-22, 01:35 AM
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thanks guys
i just assumed they were Dutch, with them being manufactured for the Dutch in Melbourne Australia in WW2, but what keith is saying they could have been made unificially for some Australian units? very strange bc
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#6
16-02-22, 08:56 AM
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Her are the relevant pages from De mouwemblemen van het Nederlandse leger.
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#7
16-02-22, 11:20 PM
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Probably not made unofficially for Australian units but made for Netherlands East Indies personnel in Australia and sold through military outfitters who then sold them to anybody who asked, including Australians.
Sergeant in the photo is wearing a cloth gun badge too. Keith
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#8
16-02-22, 11:47 PM
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thanks Henk and Keith
appreciate your input bc
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