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Old 23-07-21, 05:39 PM
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Default Opinions please 7th London

I do not think this is good as it does not have the 7 attached to the grenade via a pin. Is this correct?

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Old 23-07-21, 06:17 PM
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No it's from Marsh - see the small 'bubbles' in the flame are from the same die used to make the fantasy version with the 3 on it.
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I agree with Alan a horrible example
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Old 23-07-21, 06:58 PM
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From the Marsh catalogue

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Old 23-07-21, 09:32 PM
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Old 24-07-21, 04:42 PM
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I don't see how you guys use the Marsh Catalogue for detailed reference. The images are appalling.
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Old 24-07-21, 04:46 PM
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In this case the Marsh catalogue shows the fantasy 3 grenade alongside the 7th London Regt's grenade. I have have had both in my hand at once and the bubbles in the grenade are identical showing that they are from the same die.

Neither had the brasing holes or wires I expect to see in a genuine 7th Londons,
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What say ye regarding this one? No holes or wires.

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Old 25-07-21, 08:16 AM
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That's a much better example and does not have the Marsh die-flaws. The 7th wore this badge until conversion to RA in WW2.
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That's a much better example and does not have the Marsh die-flaws. The 7th wore this badge until conversion to RA in WW2.
They were RE 1935-40. Did they wear this badge or the RE badge then?
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Old 25-07-21, 12:19 PM
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It is recorded that they retained the 7th badge whilst RE but did change to RA when they converted. Not sure what year was this change.
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It is recorded that they retained the 7th badge whilst RE but did change to RA when they converted. Not sure what year was this change.
Thanks for the information (as a consequence I will remove the RE badge from Infantry Volunteers Middlesex - London).

The conversion to 32nd (7th City of London) Ant-Aircraft Battalion, Royal Engineers (TA) was in 1935 (when my information is correct). These RE A-A Battalions had a searchlight function.
In 1940 taken over by the RA and became: 32nd (7th City of London) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery.
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I have an non bubbled one with no holes or wires, side by side to the one in my original post.

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Both of those are exactly the same, bubbles or no. Not the same as the example I posted in '21, but I don't know.

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