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Old 17-06-19, 01:40 PM
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Default Metal Elephant Pagri Badge

Not the best of images but can anyone identify the pagri badge on this helmet? The bottom device is clearly an elephant but is there a metal scroll above it?

Suggestions as to who might have worn it please.

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Old 17-06-19, 02:06 PM
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Jon,

Pagri flash of 15th (Assaye) Field Battery, 26th Field Brigade Royal Artillery, worn in India 1921 - 1928.

The scroll reads 'Assaye'.

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Old 17-06-19, 04:38 PM
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Simon,

Brilliant, many thanks. I must have missed it in a cursory look through Norman Litchfield's Pagri Badges.

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Yes, all Norman's info.

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Have you got one in your own collection, Simon, I should imagine they are difficult to find?
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No Frank, seen the Nellies but not the scroll.

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This one is currently worn by 10 (Assaye) Battery 47th Regiment Royal Artillery

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Default Cast Assaye elephant badge

I have never thought much of this badge because it is a casting. Could it be original and Indian-made? Measures 33mm high and has two small loops on the back like a belt buckle badge. Available for offers if anyone is interested.
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