WW1 New Zealand Engineers ( NZE ) Tunnelling Company Cap Badge

King's crown cap badge with two loops to the reverse, 30mm in diameter (almost 1 1/4 inches), with two original lugs to the reverse. This is the larger pattern of this badge as worn by the tunnellers in WW1. It looks more bronze than brass. There was a bronze and a brass version. Scarce.

The New Zealand Tunnellers Company was formed on the 12th September 1915 and was the first New Zealand unit on the Western Front. Disbanded on 24th April 1919. They had a unique style of tunnelling, always timbering at right angles to the slope and not vertical as their English and German counterparts did.

Oldham No 4/313 / Corbett p117 refer.

E1.6

Code: 59699