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Title: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: failsafe on Monday 12 January 15 12:07 GMT (UK)
Hi can anyone help in identifying the regiment on this pic please
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: jess5athome on Monday 12 January 15 12:53 GMT (UK)
Hi, do you have a name for the chap?

Thought he could have been RAF to start with but not sure due to arm badge.

Frank.
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: failsafe on Monday 12 January 15 12:58 GMT (UK)
Hi, do you have a name for the chap?

Thought he could have been RAF to start with but not sure due to arm badge.

Frank.

Yeah, Edwin Billington
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Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: jess5athome on Monday 12 January 15 13:07 GMT (UK)
Hi failsafe, do you have any more info, date of birth etc

Frank,
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: failsafe on Monday 12 January 15 13:11 GMT (UK)
Hi failsafe, do you have any more info, date of birth etc

Frank,

Yeah, DOB between the months of January to March 1901
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: Regorian on Monday 12 January 15 14:25 GMT (UK)
Pic. looks like late 1930's to me. Still wearing the old style jacket with stand and fall collar. I wore one of those in RAF blue in the late 50's (ATC). We did get issued with battle dress blouses and a magnificent fit and flare greatcoat though. Wish I still had it.

Have to wait for the military experts to see your Thread for a definitive answer. I did find lots of badges similar to yours, they were more associated with 'special forces'.   

   
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: failsafe on Monday 12 January 15 14:30 GMT (UK)
Pic. looks like late 1930's to me. Still wearing the old style jacket with stand and fall collar. I wore one of those in RAF blue in the late 50's (ATC). We did get issued with battle dress blouses and a magnificent fit and flare greatcoat though. Wish I still had it.

Have to wait for the military experts to see your Thread for a definitive answer. I did find lots of badges similar to yours, they were more associated with 'special forces'.   

   
Hi
is there a link for the military experts? And would I be allowed to post this same question on 2 boards?
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: Regorian on Monday 12 January 15 14:36 GMT (UK)
They'll find this, sooner rather than later, just be patient.
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: failsafe on Monday 12 January 15 14:37 GMT (UK)
They'll find this, sooner rather than later, just be patient.

will do, thanks for the advice
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: jess5athome on Monday 12 January 15 14:49 GMT (UK)
Still looking for that patch, can't seem to find one tho', there are loads of excellent people on this board who will be along and sort it for you, rest assured  ;)

Frank.
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: failsafe on Monday 12 January 15 14:50 GMT (UK)
Still looking for that patch, can't seem to find one tho', there are loads of excellent people on this board who will be along and sort it for you, rest assured  ;)

Frank.

Cheers Frank
failsafe
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: macintosh on Tuesday 13 January 15 08:16 GMT (UK)
see www.petergh.f2s.com/flashes.html#infdiv

Go to Infantry Brigades and look for 219th, there is a similarity with your mans arm patch which looks like part of a birds head and this one pictured. This brigade had a two year period in early ww2 as a kind of Home Defence.
If you google 219th Infantry Brigade it will give you the regiments attached to this brigade.
This is all assuming that the badge is the correct one.

james
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: spotter2015 on Tuesday 13 January 15 13:26 GMT (UK)
If this man is serving in the British forces after the early 1920's, your best bet would be to get his service record. https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: althos on Monday 19 January 15 00:09 GMT (UK)
Could be an ANZAC patch and possibly the cap badge is a new zealand fern
Title: Re: Regiment-help needed patch on arm
Post by: failsafe on Monday 19 January 15 13:12 GMT (UK)
Could be an ANZAC patch and possibly the cap badge is a new zealand fern

Hi Althos
This seems unlikely as he served in British Forces (Army). Thanks anyway, mate