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Offline Jeffrey

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Identification of Hat Badge
« on: Thursday 26 August 10 11:29 BST (UK) »
Can any one please identify this hat badge for me.

It was found after the death of my mother-in-law in Bucks but until we can identify it will not know who it belonged to.

Thank you

Judy

Whoops posted it initialy without the photo ::)
CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 26 August 10 11:54 BST (UK) »
I think the experts on here will agree that it is the badge of THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 26 August 10 11:58 BST (UK) »
The roundel is certainly the same as the Royal Scots Fusiliers, but the flaming grenade did not have that shape pre 1920 at least.

So is it modern? Or could it be a collar badge rather than a cap badge?

Ken

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 26 August 10 12:09 BST (UK) »
Thank you for the replies.

I just presumed it was a hat badge as it is quite big.  ht 3" x  wth 1.5"

Any further info on this would be great.

Judy
CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #4 on: Monday 30 August 10 12:09 BST (UK) »
Yes - it's the RSF Cap badge worn on the Glengarry

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #5 on: Monday 30 August 10 15:50 BST (UK) »
Just found a picture of the collar badge and it is different.

Ken

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 02 September 10 21:27 BST (UK) »
Thank you all for the information about this hat badge.

Now this is a mystery - why on earth did she have this!!

Judy
CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 05 September 10 06:45 BST (UK) »
You may have to branch out and do research on other members of your MIL's family.

I found a cloth Desert Rat badge behind my gran's photo and subsequently have discovered her eldest son had served as a Desert Rat during WWII. So believe it came from his uniform.

His army photo doesn't show any regiment as the cap he is wearing was a side cap. I remember stories from when I was a child that he drove 3 tonners and was in Sicily at one time. Checking the British Pathe site I found clips of men wearing the same side caps driving lorries in the desert.

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Re: Identification of Hat Badge
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 05 September 10 19:47 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your reply, Jean.

Does anyone know if the badge can be identified as WW1 or WW2.

Thanks

Judy

CUMBERLAND  Armstrong Little Nixon Richardson Pearson Watson Braithwaite
WESTMORLAND  Richardson Dent Nicholson Hanson Kersey Smith Heigh
DURHAM Reed Smith Reay Hammond Metcalf Bell
Thompson Armstrong Branford Parkin Heaton Oates
NORTHUMB'LAND Nixon Johnson Armstrong Branford Thompson
DUMFRIES Armstrong Bell Halliday Little Carruthers Johnstone
YORKS Richardson Branford Siddle
ROXBURGH Jackson Elliot Armstrong Scott
FIFE Adamson Gosman Brown
AUSTRALIA Richardson Dent Hanson Kersey
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