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Re: Cap Badge
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 11:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Gobbo,  Are you an Artillery man? Mistyrose
Wiltshire:  Cricklade, West Knoyle.
Names:Newman,  Mead.
Somerset: Hinton St. George, Lopen, Cricket St. Thomas, Hornblotton.
Names: Brook, Cranton, England, Mead.
Kent: Lympne, Dymchurch, Smeeth.
Names:: Taylor, Glayzier, Tebbles, Newman, Idenden.
Surrey: Hersham, Walton on Thames, Great Bookham, Byfleet, Stoke D'Abernon, Thames Ditton, Esher.
Pyrford.Wonersh.Dunsfold.
Names: Foster, Newman, Glashier, Brown, Bond, Morum, Pantling, Mead.
Middlesex: Littleton, Shepperton.
Names: Newman

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« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 11:49 BST (UK) »
Just for two years NS.  Nothing more heroic than garrison on the Welsh border and armed guard at the armoury after the IRA attacked the Apprentices Regt armoury.
Aberdeenshire - Chalmers, Crocker, Dalrymple, Kelman
Fife - Co?per, Dun, Jackson
NE England - Harland, Hasted, Heaviside, Longridge, Thompson
SE England - Drawbridge, Hall, Hayward, Howard, Newell, Seward, Slade, Smith

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« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 11:59 BST (UK) »
My other half was Artillery too, like you NS [Rhyl and Germany 1958/9].  Mistyrose
Wiltshire:  Cricklade, West Knoyle.
Names:Newman,  Mead.
Somerset: Hinton St. George, Lopen, Cricket St. Thomas, Hornblotton.
Names: Brook, Cranton, England, Mead.
Kent: Lympne, Dymchurch, Smeeth.
Names:: Taylor, Glayzier, Tebbles, Newman, Idenden.
Surrey: Hersham, Walton on Thames, Great Bookham, Byfleet, Stoke D'Abernon, Thames Ditton, Esher.
Pyrford.Wonersh.Dunsfold.
Names: Foster, Newman, Glashier, Brown, Bond, Morum, Pantling, Mead.
Middlesex: Littleton, Shepperton.
Names: Newman

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« Reply #30 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 12:05 BST (UK) »
Quote from: O1dgobbo on Tuesday 12 May 09 11:35 BST (UK)
Hi Scrimnet

Kipling & King looks to be a super reference but at around £60 a bit beyond the reach of a poor (mean?) Gunner.  Have fun on Sunday, I guess  at Clandon Park.

All the best

Gobbo

Although they look brand new, I was lucky enough to pick up the pair second hand, in the same edition some time ago...(2nd revised). They have inside the flap Vol 1, £65.00 and Vol 2, £42.50 respectively!!! :o :o :o

Bless the Oxfam bookshop in Birmingham!! It used to be a repository of lovely military history books...Not so much these days, and of course, they have learned the value of the "hard to come by".... ::)

That not withstanding, the easiest one to navigate and start with is the John Gaylor "Military Badge Collecting" which recently, after the death of the author went into a new, but not I feel, better edition (mine is the 1977 revised edition)

I still use it as first call for badges. It is the edition I got as an alternative to fireworks one bonfire night when I was a small child...I was given the choice...Fireworks or the equivalent money for books....Books won everytime!

Next, I shall give away the secrets of the Magic Circle! I seem to have given all my secrets away! ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I'm sure there will be fun at Clandon on Sunday...10 mins form home!!
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 12:07 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Mistyrose41 on Tuesday 12 May 09 11:59 BST (UK)
My other half was Artillery too, like you NS [Rhyl and Germany 1958/9].  Mistyrose

Are we surrounded by Drop Shorts??  :o :o :o

Did I ever tell you the one about white lanyards and the abandonment of the guns....?? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 12:08 BST (UK) »
We both just got caught then before it was abolished and the kids had to invent the gap year to take its place.  Doubtless your OH has fond memories of training, presumably at Oswestry.  Better be careful or we shall be told off by a fierce moderator for trivial chat in a serious thread!  So despite the lanyard Frederick's badge is not Artillery.
Aberdeenshire - Chalmers, Crocker, Dalrymple, Kelman
Fife - Co?per, Dun, Jackson
NE England - Harland, Hasted, Heaviside, Longridge, Thompson
SE England - Drawbridge, Hall, Hayward, Howard, Newell, Seward, Slade, Smith

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« Reply #33 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 12:11 BST (UK) »
No Scrimnet you did not but just a word of warning do not try to borrow a penknife in a RHA mess!

All the best

Gobbo
Aberdeenshire - Chalmers, Crocker, Dalrymple, Kelman
Fife - Co?per, Dun, Jackson
NE England - Harland, Hasted, Heaviside, Longridge, Thompson
SE England - Drawbridge, Hall, Hayward, Howard, Newell, Seward, Slade, Smith

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« Reply #34 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 12:12 BST (UK) »
Here you go mate 19.99 plus p&p, and cheaper than a certain South American river...

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=548
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        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 12 May 09 12:16 BST (UK) »
There are no fierce mods on here....

Honest... ;D
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.
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