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Old 03-07-17, 09:12 AM
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Default WW! Cloth Worn

Some examples of the numerous - and so far unrecorded in comprehensive published form - cloth badges worn in WWI.

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File Type: jpg 4 Middx 37 Div JM sold.jpg (32.3 KB, 124 views)
File Type: jpg 34 Div MGC dated May 1919 Germany.jpg (26.9 KB, 118 views)
File Type: jpg Army Cyclist JM detail.jpg (61.7 KB, 134 views)
File Type: jpg ASC 42 Div Train No4 Coy JM.jpg (31.2 KB, 125 views)
File Type: jpg KRR unknown JM.jpg (48.5 KB, 155 views)
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Old 03-07-17, 10:40 AM
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1) 37th Division
2) 34th Btn M.G.C 34th Division
3) 17th Division
4) 4th Lancashire Fusiliers?
5) unknown to me
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Old 03-07-17, 10:40 AM
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First one - is that the yellow hose shoe of 37th Div?
Second one - 34th Div?
fourth one - a 42nd Div unit?
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Old 03-07-17, 10:41 AM
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Beaten to it - I spent too much time trying to identify the ones I didn't have a hope of identifying.......
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Old 03-07-17, 10:52 AM
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no. 4 is the 4th Company of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Div. A.S.C.

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Old 03-07-17, 10:55 AM
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Thanks Button.
I hadn't identified the cap badge.
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Old 03-07-17, 10:59 AM
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Its particularly difficult to ID these due to the photographic effect of those days that makes colours look opposite to what they are.

For instance the 4 is yellow and the thin inner diamond is white, all on a dark background.

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