Jenkin Robert LEWIS WW1 1918

[hanes teulu]

I had checked out "ww1 bit badge". The Swansea papers describe several funerals around that time involving bit badge members - but not one for JRB.

Read something about " ,,, their having done their bit ..." as the origin.

[AlanBoyd]

An obituary of a Swansea man in 1940 includes this paragraph:

He did much work on behalf of the Comrades of the Great War, and was the first secretary of the Swansea branch of the "Bit Badge League," which was followed by the National Federation of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers and eventually becoming the British Legion.

All newspaper hits for the term originate in South Wales. Looking at Wikipedia entries it seems that it might have been a local name for the Silver War Badge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_War_Badge

[jonwarrn]

Hi
Thanks guys, very interesting and illuminating!
John

[hanes teulu]

Croeso/you're welcome and I endorse your sentiments - thoroughly enjoyed.

Added - this is not my source of "... doing their bit... " prompting the name but includes the holder wearing the badge.
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4115348/4115356/159/edward%2BOR%2Bmorgan?from=search

[jonwarrn]

t " ,,, their having done their bit ..." as the origin.

Hi
Great find.
Yes, it all makes sense now to me now, as their name in Swansea for the SWB.
That article reminds us what many of those men had to go through to receive one.

[hanes teulu]

Trevalyn,
Is it simply coincidence that your current searches for the "missing" burials of Lewis (1918) and Stephens (1919) involve "bit Badge" and "military funeral"?