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General => Armed Forces => World War Two => Topic started by: museum man 2 on Tuesday 01 October 13 14:23 BST (UK)
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Can you identify Regiment please? Date 1944. Soldier billeted with family in Twickenham. May be associated with Bushy Park, Twickenham. Thanks.
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I think Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
James
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could be the "Kings Own Scottish Borderers"
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Greetings
Also think Kings Own Scotish Borders
They are wearing Troose and not kilts of a highland regt
regards
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From 1942, Camp Griffiss in Bushy Park became the site of a large US base, headquarters to a number of the Allied departments. The camp served as the European Headquarters for the USAAF from July 1942 to December 1944. General Dwight Eisenhower was averse to working in the centre of London during World War II. He decided instead to make Bushy Park the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) centre for planning Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of north-west Europe that began with the D-Day landings.[
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Thanks for replies so far. KOSB Museum confirms NOT KOSB as the dicing on the glengarry is wrong. Any other suggestions please.
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What is particular to this glengarry band is that there are 3 rows of dices.
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I still think he is Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, red/white dicing. and the A&SH wore the largest badge in the army.
James
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Argylls Badge (largest as indicated) came to a very sharp point. One in picture does not seem to show this. It seems to have a variable shape whereas Argylls is essentially fairly round at the bottom with narrowing towards the point. A bit like the traditional illustration of a teardrop. Don't think this badge shows this unless picture is marked or distorted. Thanks.
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Argylls
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Take the height of a Glengarry at the high point of curve 4", take the height of A&SH badge 3.25".
Take the height of Glengarry at the badge site 3.75" assuming all black badge patches are the same position which they generally are, No other badge will fill that space, looking at the Glengarry badge from the front of the soldier is not going to give the same image as a side on view of the badge.
James
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guess youve solved it then :)
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Good evening,
I'm a little puzzled by BBs example, all red and white. Normally the centre row is red and blue for royal regt's, red and green for others. The tourlie on top is either red, green or black depending on regt, of course you can't tell on a B/W photo ;D ;D ;D
John915
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Finding all this interesting. As a very definite non expert I must bow to others.
Still think this cannot be A&SH badge as even with a replicated view using a real A&SH badge at exactly the same angle I cannot get it to assume the shape as in the photo. Are there any obscure badges that fit? The KOSB one looks the part but the dicing is definitely wrong.
Thanks for all your assistance.