3rd VB Devonshire Regiment

[LONGSHANKS]

So looks like I got a repro.

[alan g]

Rob
Do you collect badges to the Devons then ?
Regards
Alan

[Rob Miller]

Hi Alan, yes Devons & Cyclists which is great because there is the 7th Devons which ticks all the boxs

[3dg]

Hi,
Very interesting thread.
I put one in myself last month with regards to 2nd PWO Vol Bn Devons.I see that most of the Devon Vol Bns had there own cap badge, did the 2nd have its own?
Ive seen a glengary badge for the 2nd, but not a cap badge.
Could anyone help.

Thank you

[3dg]

Sorry to keep nagging about this one, but does anyone know if the above Bn had its own cap badge? just like the 3rd 4th and 5th did. Im trying to put together a private study of the Plymouth volunteers, and ive not seen a lot about cap badges, collar badges, no problem, as i have the Churchill book.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

[Rob Miller]

Its a very good question, and what about the 1st Vol Bn?

[3dg]

Thats also a good question.Is there any publication or book out there about Volunteer cap badges?

[Rob Miller]

I see there was another 3rd Vol Bn Devon badge on Ebay which looks very much like mine.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=390308684667

I was told mine looked suspicious but there seemed to be some real interest in this new Ebay one.

Here is mine again. Rob.

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[Toby Purcell]

Originally Posted by Rob Miller

This chap would appear to be the Drum Major of one of the Devonshire Volunteer Battalions, the photo was taken by a Tiverton Photographer and posted in Tiverton on December 17th 1907.



I can't get the detail any clearer but it certainly looks like the Devonshire badge with the added scroll.



The Buttons look like 3rd Bn but it could almost be a 5??

Not quite the Drum Major, but a bass drummer of a Volunteer Battalion Band of the Devons. He must be an 'old sweat', as is wearing the old pattern bandsman's badge (in worsted cloth) from before George V's reign. He is also wearing a belt from the 1914 Leather Equipment which perhaps dates the photo to 1914-15.

[Rob Miller]

A new buy, and very pleased with it too.

Rob

[Alan O]

I saw that on the website and wondered what the half moons were on the side. You could have the lugs put back on but you would lose the patina.

[Rob Miller]

I think I will leave it with the pin, I assume it would have been made into a brooch before the first world war?

Rob

[Alan O]

The badge should have been replaced from 1908 with the formation of the 3rd-7th Bns TF who did not have the title scrolls. The 5th Volunteer Bn were from Newton Abbott but I have been unable to find out which TF Bn the former VB personnel became. The renumbering was not always a straight transfer.

[Rob Miller]

I have found a source that says the 2nd and 5th Volunteer Battalions became the 5th Territorial Battalion but it probably wasn't that simple.

In 1908 it would have been easy to remove the scroll from this badge to convert a VB badge into a TF badge though?

Rob

[Alan O]

Apart from leaving the holes of course!