max7474 Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Can any one tell me what this chevron signifies. It is sized against a RA cap badge for comparison and is believed to be WW1. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff brown Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Looks like the overseas service chevron (indicating service in 1915, I think). The other chevrons were blue. Can any one tell me what this chevron signifies. It is sized against a RA cap badge for comparison and is believed to be WW1. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Stewart Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Certainly of rank size when compared to the RA capbadge, but I've never seen an overseas service chevron on that scale, which as you're well aware much smaller - so at a loss as to what it could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmaasz Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Lots of recent discussion of red and blue overseas chevrons. Looks to me like a WW2 chevron. WW1 chevrons were 1/4 inch wide and each arm was 1 1/4 inches long, and embroidered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max7474 Posted 23 November , 2009 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Thanks - US or British? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff brown Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Having looked again and noted the scale of the chevron, I can now see it isn't an overseas chevron. Sorry about that! Thanks - US or British? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Given the size, it would appear to be the chevron worn by US soldiers on their tunics after discharge (ie to show they were no longer serving soldiers in the short time period in which they were still allowed to wear their uniforms). http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:n9bkb...nk&ie=UTF-8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max7474 Posted 23 November , 2009 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Andrew Thanks. Any collectable value or are they so common that no one would want one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Egalton Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Just a thought, but when I was a boy soldier - interestingly enough in the Junior Leaders Regiment Royal Artillery- all junior soldier rank badges where red. So, could this be a memento of someone’s boy service? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 23 November , 2009 Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Andrew Thanks. Any collectable value or are they so common that no one would want one? If it is the US chevron, very common - lots of surviving uniforms worn by returning soldiers had them added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max7474 Posted 23 November , 2009 Author Share Posted 23 November , 2009 Thanks. Where was it worn and which way up is right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 24 November , 2009 Share Posted 24 November , 2009 Thanks. Where was it worn and which way up is right? As per the two tunics in the link I posted, lowish on the upper left sleeve, point upwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max7474 Posted 24 November , 2009 Author Share Posted 24 November , 2009 Thanks very much. Unless anyone wants it then it is bound for that infamous auction site. PM me if there is a cloth collector out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillgorilla Posted 25 November , 2009 Share Posted 25 November , 2009 It could also be a Junior Leaders' L/Cpl stripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max7474 Posted 25 November , 2009 Author Share Posted 25 November , 2009 It came with a WW1 / Edwardian collection of badges so I thought it more likely to be that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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