WW2 8th Corps Embroidered Cloth Formation Sign
2nd pattern embroidered example of a white charging knight in armour on a red background felt cloth formation sign. Removed from uniform. In good condition, colours bright.
As part of 21st Army Group, 8 Corps landed in Normandy with the 7th and 11th Armoured under its command and fought from the landings all the way into Germany.
Ref Morris Part 1 p10 no.9.
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Africa - 1st Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment (ACR) Subdued Regimental Printed Cloth Formation Designation Sign Flash Arm Badge
Screen printed on green cotton. In good condition. Not one of the screen printed copies circulating on a well known auction site.
Owen C606 refers.
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Northumbrian District (Northern Command) / Northumberland Home Guard 2nd pattern woven Formation Sign Flash
Removed from uniform, 2nd pattern embroidered St Oswalds Shields as worn by Home Guard units in Northumberland. In good overall condition.
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WW2 61st Infantry Division Printed Cloth Formation Sign Badge
Removed from uniform, worn between 1939 and 1945. UK based, a second line Territorial Army Division, it spent a considerable time in Northern Ireland, and acted mainly as a training and drafting Division. In good overall condition.
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Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ( A&SH) Diced Embroidered Cloth Flash Designation
Red and white diced with green ends. Circa 6.7cm wide and 2.5cm deep. Removed from uniform. A post WW2 issue given the airtex style material.
Worn by regular units but also worn by the 54th (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (ex 9th Bn)) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment and 402nd Light Regiment, Royal Artillery (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ) (TA).
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East Anglia Infantry Brigade Territorial Army Battalions Woven Cloth Formation Sign
Post WW2, removed from uniform, slight dried glue mark to top right tip of shield, paper and glue marks to reverse. In good overall condition.
Davis No 131 refers.
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WW2 44th (Home Counties) Division (TA) Cloth Formation Sign
A painted printed example in very good unissued condition. Minor creasing to paint. Made by the company Display Patents Ltd who perfected an effective method of screen printing using oil paints in 1938.
Daivs No 84 (Classified by him as Rare). BoBD (jon Mills) p1203 (Fig D2).
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British Military Staff attached to the UK Ministry of Supply Formation Sign
A nicely embroidered example in unissued condition, bright colours and near mint. Later the Ministry of Defence Procurement Executive. This pattern worn 1947 - 1959.
BoBD (J Mills) p882 refers.
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23rd London Regiment / 42nd Royal Tank Regiment (RTR)Regimental Flash Slip on Slide
Worn yellow over blue, has seen a bit of wear but in overall good condition. Label identifying it, easily removed. Worn during WW2 and on and off again until 1961.
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BoBD (Jon Mills) No 5278 refers.
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47th (2nd London) Division Embroidered Dutch Tile Formation Sign
A small neatly embroidered "Dutch Tile" Formation sign as worn by the Territorial Units of the 2nd London Division (see page facing p16 in Badges on Battle Dress (BoBD) to see a soldier of the London Scottish wearing it). Introduced in 1925 and dropped from use in 1936. See Item 90 in BoBD Vol 1. In very good condition but with a lot of old dried glue to the reverse. Scarce.
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