Fourth Army Insignia

[nfh249]

I saw this over the weekend hanging on the wall at Gunby Hall in Lincolnshire, the country seat of Field Marshal Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd and thought it might be of interest to someone.

Cheers,

Neil

Edited 9 September , 2019 by nfh249

[elliot#1]

Thanks for sharing, certainly of interest to me!

 

Best,

 

Elliot

[Dragoon]

Yes, defiantly interesting, thank you for sharing.

 

Chris

[jay dubaya]

The Fourth Army was formed on 5th February 1916. The boar’s head sign was adopted in the spring of 1917 by General Rawlinson who had just returned from a short leave spent in the south of France in boar hunting. For a long time ‘Rawly’ a pet boar, love at Army HQ, but the coming of peace necessitated Rawly’s transfer to the zoo.  

 

J