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18-08-2006, 06:08 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2005
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 | Re: British 1st Army Badge According to Hodges & Taylor's "British Military markings 1939-1945", The red cross on white is 1st Army and the blue cross on white is 2nd Army. This is corroborated by Howard Cole's "Formation badges of WW2" Rich |
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18-08-2006, 06:27 PM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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| Re: British 1st Army Badge Rich is correct as confirmed on the relative page of the RA site: RA 1939-45 90 Fld Rgt My first thought, as earlier posted, that the cross was red must have been right. What tricks one's memory plays! |
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18-08-2006, 09:32 PM
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| WW2 Veteran Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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| Re: British 1st Army Badge The RA piece confirms that 2nd Army's cross was blue, also my first thought that 1st Army's was red. 8th Army's in which we served in Italy had a yellow cross but without the sword; 14th Army had the sword but not the cross. The crows may be stoned but not you Sapper, even though the North Irish Horse did not serve in the NWE Theatre! |
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18-08-2006, 10:06 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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| Re: British 1st Army Badge Question to the Veterans! Would the First Army badge be worn at the same time as the divisional badge or were they worn separately?
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18-08-2006, 11:05 PM
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| Grumpy Old Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Re: British 1st Army Badge Quote:
The First Army badge would have been worn by the Troops at Army Command level. Divisonal troops would have only worn their Div badge. Though alot of the time they wore no badges at all. | |
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