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#1
24-12-15, 01:16 PM
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Lone Welsh feathers - unrecorded cap badge 1914
From Today's Daily Telegraph. I am presuming that the soldier was RWF for his career as he would have been a pre War Regular to be in France in 1914.
I have seen this badge before but never with a positive Bn ID and being sold a Wilt yeomanry or the like.. Can any Welsh collectors provide any details. 
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#2
24-12-15, 05:06 PM
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He's wearing a wartime introduced utility tunic I think? "Tall" unpleated breast pockets and no rifle patches, a style possibly introduced as early as October 1914, perhaps not issued out until 1915?
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24-12-15, 05:27 PM
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The badge is a bi-metal by the looks of it..... the scrolls are broken off or taken off. The chap looks a bit older than the norm? GS brass buttons..... does not look Yeo ....but has that VB look about him?
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#6
24-12-15, 06:03 PM
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Now the subject of a thread on the GWF.
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#7
24-12-15, 11:02 PM
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Nothing I have come across so far suggests that the badge in question was worn by a regular, or indeed service, battalion of the RWF.
2nd Batt'n Welsh Reg't landed at Le Havre 13th August, 1914 so could be WR and I have some PPCs of WR units wearing some similar style shoulder badges. That said I have seen these cap badges before and have no idea who wore them. On a separate note;- Fendigaid Nos Pawb, may your God go with you. Last edited by 41st; 24-12-15 at 11:12 PM.
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#8
24-12-15, 11:12 PM
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Could it perhaps be the upper part of a Glamorgan yeomanry badge, damaged or the rest obscured by the chinstrap? Of the POW plumes pattern badges that would be the closest?
http://www.1914-1918.net/glamyeo.htm Andy
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#10
24-12-15, 11:55 PM
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Kevin,
I'm currently working off my iPhone so don't have the luxury of a big screen! The other option is of course the 10th Hussars and the newspaper has assumed Welsh because of the POW.????? Merry Christmas Andy
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#11
25-12-15, 12:15 AM
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VB Welsh Regiment with a BiM "Regular" badge thats had the scroll(s) taken off?
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Cofion gorau Gruffydd M-J www.paoyeomanry.org.uk "A Yeoman from the Stalwart Rural Cavalry" Lechyd da pob Cymro
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27-12-15, 11:30 AM
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Realise this is an old post, but there is more to this than what has already been posted, as this chap wasn't a Regular soldier at all and having viewed his records, this is what I posted on the GWF;-
"As pointed out by hywyn - not exactly the truth. Was entirely 3rd(SR)Bn,RWF from 6th November 1908 and served 6yrs 284days. His attachment to the 2nd Bn,RWF was brief as he was admitted to No.3 General Hospital on the 30th April 1915 and returned to England on the 11th May 1915, ending up in No.2 Western General Hospital, Manchester on the 12th May, 1915 and was still in the UK on the 6th June 1915, being eventually "Discharged" on the 16th August 1915. A letter to this effect was written in his own hand when applying for a Silver War Badge in January 1917." He was mobilised in August 1914 and so the conclusion is that this may not be the man in question. Last edited by Graham Stewart; 27-12-15 at 11:35 AM.
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#15
27-12-15, 06:39 PM
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What was this mans name?
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