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Old 13-02-19, 12:19 PM
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Default Cap badge identification please

Clearly a WWI photo this officer wears RA/RE grenade collars but the cap badge has defeated me. It looks like intertwined script letters within a belt on which there is a motto. Suggestions please.

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Old 13-02-19, 12:57 PM
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Hello Jon
Has a look of a Household Cavalry cap badge ???


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Old 13-02-19, 01:38 PM
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Just a thought but may it be another collar badge from the size of it?
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Old 13-02-19, 01:42 PM
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From a close study definitely not Household Cavalry. May well be a collar badge but if so whose and what's the RA/RE connection?

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My guess, Indian Army: 2nd Queens Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners.

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Old 13-02-19, 07:28 PM
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Zob is bang on the money. Indian Army, British officer, 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners. Collar badges were common to RE, but cap badges discrete. As Queen Victoria’s Own, the VRI cypher in the centre of the Garter strap relates to her position as Queen Empress.

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My guess, Indian Army: 2nd Queens Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners.

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Nice, spot on didn’t think of Indian Army 👍

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Old 14-02-19, 11:39 AM
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Brilliant detective work, thank you.

Now that it has been identified as Indian which is outside my collecting interest I would be willing to sell it to an interested collector.

PM me if interested.

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