Home Guard Bradford Proficiency Badge

[Rob Miller]

I read in "Birmingham at war, Vol 2" by Alton Douglas page 57,

"A typical Home Guard Battalion

44th bn. Royal Warks. Regt. was formed in the Hockley area by 4 firms, each providing a company. These were W. Canning and Co. Ltd., Joseph Lucas Ltd., Bulpitt & Sons Ltd. and the Birmingham Mint, which was joined by a small firm, Thomas Fattorini Ltd."

And it made me wonder if there was a connection between Fattorini joining the Home Guard and supplying and perhaps wearing this badge.

Obviously Bradford and Birmingham are no little distance apart, but did Fattorini have several works at the time, this badge is marked Fattorini Bradford on the back and this works may have been part of another Home Guard unit there?

Rob