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Old 18-08-19, 09:27 AM
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Default Strange Highland Light Infantry shoulder title

Another broken shoulder title only purchased because it was unusual. As far as I can make out, it is a standard H.L.I. shoulder title with lugs intact, brazed to a backing plate which has also had a standard light Infantry bugle, lugs removed, brazed to it. The top of the backing plate has broken off but possibly had a T and a number above the bugle at some time.

I find it hard to believe that soldiers would have been allowed to wear them in this fashion but what other reason for their manufacture can there have been?
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Old 18-08-19, 09:54 AM
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Is that bugle appropriate for HLI, wouldn't their S/T bugle have been the generic little stringed bugle used as collar, S/T and Buglers arm badges?
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Old 18-08-19, 10:15 AM
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Is that bugle appropriate for HLI, wouldn't their S/T bugle have been the generic little stringed bugle used as collar, S/T and Buglers arm badges?
Not necessarily, Westlake 1357 and 1358 show this type of bugle in use, albeit with HIGHLAND beneath it.
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Old 18-08-19, 10:51 AM
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Ah, right.
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For myself, I find it hard to believe that this could have actually been worn in uniform.
Perhaps it was a starting piece for eventual assemblage into a trench art piece or something similar? Who knows....

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Old 20-08-19, 06:59 AM
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For myself, I find it hard to believe that this could have actually been worn in uniform.
Perhaps it was a starting piece for eventual assemblage into a trench art piece or something similar? Who knows....

CB
Indeed, I am wondering if an apprentice jeweller or badge faker, was given a batch of old shoulder titles to practice their brazing skills on. This Territorial officer's 'T' that was in the same batch, certainly raises the possibility.
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