Poppies Posted 5 January , 2012 Posted 5 January , 2012 It's been a long time since I was last on this site and I am still grateful for the help and advice I was given then. Please can I ask your opinions again? I was sorting through the medals belonging to my grandfather and his brother-in-law and found this badge. The tiny gothic script on the ribbon says "ICH DIEN", and the feathers are obviously those of the Prince of Wales, so I've googled for images of badges for the Royal Welsh Regiment and have seen dozens of very, very similar badges - but nothing exactly like this one. Does anyone recognise it? If it does belong to any Welsh regiment, the mystery deepens: my family were in the Buffs, the East Surrey and the London regiments - but we have no connection at all with Wales. Was there a custom of swapping badges with friends at the end of the War? My maternal grandfather was deemed unfit for combat and spent WW1 with the RAMC at Blackpool - but I have no badge at all that belonged to him... is it likely that he swapped his RAMC badge for this one? I will be grateful for any light you can shed! Poppies.
squirrel Posted 5 January , 2012 Posted 5 January , 2012 Looks more likely to be the cap badge of the 15th (County of London) battalion, Civil Service Rifles, London Regiment as it has no title scroll below as the Welsh/Welch Regiment does.
Poppies Posted 5 January , 2012 Author Posted 5 January , 2012 Aaah. That's interesting. One of my great-uncles was in the London Regiment, so it might be his badge. Thank you.
geraint Posted 5 January , 2012 Posted 5 January , 2012 Hi poppies! Certainly not the Welch/Welsh Regiment. (They had a crown and a scroll below the feathers). Squirel's suggestion seems reasonable.
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