What is this?

[Eddie Parks]

At the risk of drawing unwanted attention tothis eBay item does anybody know what it really is

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1406867093...#ht_500wt_1011

Eddie

[Mike Jackson]

How about a shoulder title for a Major in Popski's Private Army? LOL (as they say!)

[Eddie Parks]

Hadn't thought of that - definitely a must have for the SF fanatics.

But seriously, the only thing I can find in it's favour is the script - which is very similar to that used by the Palestine Police.

Eddie

[Mike Jackson]

Palestine Police - agreed but the association of the crown with a title is unusual. Did the Force have an Auxiliary component along the lines of the B Specials - if so could this have been a headress badge for them?
Mike

[Mike Jackson]

Originally Posted by Mike Jackson

Palestine Police - agreed but the association of the crown with a title is unusual. Did the Force have an Auxiliary component along the lines of the B Specials - if so could this have been a headress badge for them?
Mike

This is well worth looking at:

http://www.historama.com/online-reso...e_uniform.html

[revdougal]

I have taken this badge to be as described, and probably used on head dress, because police usually have their number as a s/t.
However I also have another "PPA" badge, ascribed to Palestine. This is a die stamped tin wm disc, 40mm in diameter, with a circle of olive leaves (7mm) around the edge, and with a centre of solid dark blue (23mm) leaving "PPA" across the centre in wm - but also in the same script as above. It is on lugs with feet.
In "The Echo of the Bugle", being a history of "Extinct military and constabulary forces in Palestine and Transjordan 1915 - 1967" (published in Jerusalem 1978), I can find no reference to "Auxiliaries"; but there appear to have been many different sorts of "Reserves", eg Special Constables, Local Specials (who were "Urban" policemen), as well as Temporary Additional Police, and a female Police Unit in Jerusalem, whose members wore bicornes, commanded by an enormously fat Russian woman popularly called "the whale". There is lots more info but this paperback is a bit of a jumble of facts, extending to French, Greek, Czech and Polish troops etc doing duty in Palestine.

[ebro]

I believe it to be a badge of Palestine Port Authority.
Eddie

[Eddie Parks]

I think I agree with the other Eddie - anyway i bought it as such. For the benefit of the record here's a picture:

Eddie

Originally Posted by Eddie Parks

I think I agree with the other Eddie - anyway i bought it as such. For the benefit of the record here's a picture:

Eddie

PALESTINE POLICE ACADEMY shoulder title


peter

[zob]

Originally Posted by Eddie Parks

At the risk of drawing unwanted attention tothis eBay item does anybody know what it really is

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1406867093...#ht_500wt_1011

Eddie

Hi,
I have always understood this badge to be: Palestine Police Auxiliary.
Best regards,
Zob.

[Eddie Parks]

Well - I've discovered what it REALLY is. And it is absolutely nothing at all to do with the Palestine Police or indeed Palestine.

[William]

Originally Posted by Eddie Parks

Well - I've discovered what it REALLY is. And it is absolutely nothing at all to do with the Palestine Police or indeed Palestine.

Congratulations!

[engr9266]

Originally Posted by Eddie Parks

Well - I've discovered what it REALLY is. And it is absolutely nothing at all to do with the Palestine Police or indeed Palestine.

Come on then....spill

[Phil2M]

Australian?

[wright241]

Originally Posted by Eddie Parks

Well - I've discovered what it REALLY is. And it is absolutely nothing at all to do with the Palestine Police or indeed Palestine.

Well done Eddie. I was all for Pensioners Private Army - we are going to need one soon......