Badges Part II

[Allan P.]

Here are some more cap badges, I think these are all London Regiments/units, but hopefully you can tell me if thats correct. Any thing interesting?

Thanks again,

Allan

[leigh kitchen]

Aaagghhh.
I've just come in from the pub,
Post Office Rifles (8th Bn), London Rifle Brigade, (5th Bn), but a cadet unit - is it sew on or does it have fittings?- some do, some don't, 19th, 10th (this could be a ringer, short lived unit before the number was passed on, this example may be okay, but I suspect not), 7th (amalgamated with the 8th), Civil Service Rifles, 18th London Irish, 13th Kensingtons.
Irish coffee & the hogpiece are calling, I'll give more accurate detail when I'm out of her sight & sober.
Urgh.
I feel ill.

[Keith Blakeman]

Allan,

Here we go: Top to bottom left to Right:

1.17th Btn.London Poplar & Stepney Rifles 1920-46
2.5th Btn. London Rifle Brigade 1920-46
3.5th Btn. London 1908-20
4.Rifle Brigade 1910-37 (not a London Regiment badge)
5.as 3 but a cadets badge and a restrike I'm afraid
6.16th Btn. London Queen's Westminster rifles
7.10th Btn.London Paddington Rifles 1908-12
8.7th Btn.London
9.Queens Westminster's KRRC (amalgamation of 15th & 16th London)
10.18th Btn. London Irish
11.13th Btn.Kensington Regiment (Princess Louise)

Hope this helps,

Keith

[Gary Jucha]

Not the Greystones ????

Leigh,
I hope you weren't in the Greystones ... I remember the place from 20 years ago .... No wonder your ill !!

Hair of Dog .... and a Pavement Pizza ...... You'll live !!

(I'm stuck with cheap red dishwater wine !!!!! AT HOME !!!!!!!!!)

Gary J.

Aaagghhh.
I've just come in from the pub,
Post Office Rifles (8th Bn), London Rifle Brigade, (5th Bn), but a cadet unit - is it sew on or does it have fittings?- some do, some don't, 19th, 10th (this could be a ringer, short lived unit before the number was passed on, this example may be okay, but I suspect not), 7th (amalgamated with the 8th), Civil Service Rifles, 18th London Irish, 13th Kensingtons.
Irish coffee & the hogpiece are calling, I'll give more accurate detail when I'm out of her sight & sober.
Urgh.
I feel ill.

[leigh kitchen]

Greystones - horrible place - managed to get her to drive me to The Admiral Wells at Holme - a quick try of a Nethergates before going intravenous with somebody or others 10/50.

Makes a change for her to drive me in a car - she normally has to drive me with a bullwhip to get me to do anything.

[Gary Jucha]

457th

Leigh,
I hope you took the cross-country route ... along the old Glatton 457th Bomb group runway/road ....
..A few pints and we have lift-off !!!

Gary J.

[leigh kitchen]

No, steered her back across the flyover & through Glatton - my cunning plan was to nip into the Addison on the way past, but it did'nt work.
There's a barman there who's post war service in bomber squadrons, handy for finding out details about particular RAF casualties, lost aircraft etc.
He checked out the name of an RAF fatality for me a few days ago, came back with aircraft serial no., names of crew members etc.
Perhaps he just gets them off a web site, but useful.
I only ever driven past that memorial, I've never stopped & looked at it. I was going to stop & look at the one at Polebrook again the other day, but left it too late on the way back from Oundle.
When'd the eagle get stuck back on the column at Norman Cross - resin not bronze this time no doubt - I went to look at a living history thing there a week or two ago, but having got there could'nt be bothered & just carried on driving.

[max7474]

The London cadets is not a good one. The originals were in blackened brass and voided. This is a much faked badge. The 7th londons should have the numerla attached by 2 retaining wires to the reverse.

[leigh kitchen]

I feel the 10th needs a closer look, maybe it's just because you see fakes of these all over the place.

[Allan P.]

I'll have a closer look at those badges.

Thanks,

Allan