a strange shield

[cosimo]

Please me I look for info on this shield .

is it for

209 Company Pioneer Corps. Part of 48 Pioneer Group from c. August 1941

or for other British or Commonwealth unit?

many thanks for your help

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[byterock]

Looks more US than CW.
I think it is a Command Patch of some form going by the shape of it.

[ROBB]

Not British ,looks German Bevo .Rob

[cosimo]

Hi people many thanks for yours help .

please I post this shield at http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=215058

But....

Please help me


cosimo

[Richard Woods]

It's British

In 1996 or 1967 I drew this very insignia, and forty five others, for “The Formation Sign”; the journal of the Military Heraldry Society. The drawings were based on photocopies of the pages from a manufacturers sample book owned by a fellow society member. Most, though infuriatingly not all of the signs were clearly labelled; this particular one as “209. Coy Pioneer Corps”. An illustrated article about the signs in the book appeared in “The Formation Sign” No 186 (April -June 1997). <O</O
Contrary to what some may believe the Jacquard weaving technique was not the sole preserve of the Bandfabrik Ewald Vorsteher. The technique has been in use since the nineteenth century.<O</O
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209 Company AMPC, the colours are those of the Pioneer Corps not some obscure foreign volunteer unit of the Wehrmacht.

[cosimo]

Hi Richard Woods many thanks for your help

we have resolved the mystery

but sincerely, except for the dimensions, all made me think about a German insignia. Even if I was not quite certain of the epoch and I had thought about a production for a local police or a French unity or English or American in Germany.

hi people many thanks for all your help

Please I would be happy to see this insignia in some photos and to know where I can find some information on this unity and the period of use of this insignia.
many thanks
cosimo
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