Normally when I ask a seller for more info on ebay ,I usually get no reply (untill hes got no bids and the auctions coming to an end) or a "yeh" or "nah mate" ,so I was pleasantly surprised to get this response from an old vet .Rob.
"Hello Robert,
I hope this comes across OK but I am afraid it is not very clear.
Just for the record during the war I served in the infantry, The Hampshire Regiment,
( it was not " Royal " in those days and at the end of the war with the 13/18 Royal Hussars.
At one stage I was posted to a Holding unit where I started collecting badges from the boys as they were transferred in many cases to different units I collected the discarded badges etc.
They were saved by the fact that I sewed them in to my leather jerkin which eventually came home with me on demob. Now 60 odd years on I have discovered their value !
This present batch now being offered are the last of the known items.
I will have to some careful research to sort out the remainder.
Cheers ,
This guy is nearly 80 ,well done him .Rob.
"Hello Robert,
I hope this comes across OK but I am afraid it is not very clear.
Just for the record during the war I served in the infantry, The Hampshire Regiment,
( it was not " Royal " in those days and at the end of the war with the 13/18 Royal Hussars.
At one stage I was posted to a Holding unit where I started collecting badges from the boys as they were transferred in many cases to different units I collected the discarded badges etc.
They were saved by the fact that I sewed them in to my leather jerkin which eventually came home with me on demob. Now 60 odd years on I have discovered their value !
This present batch now being offered are the last of the known items.
I will have to some careful research to sort out the remainder.
Cheers ,
This guy is nearly 80 ,well done him .Rob.
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