Help identify British cap badge

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  1. alberk

    alberk Well-Known Member

    Hello, could someone please help me to identify the officer`s cap badge shown below?
    The names given on the pic are: Lt Bradstock and L/Cpl Spofford.
    Thank you!
    Brit soldiers eating.jpg
     
  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  3. alberk

    alberk Well-Known Member

    Thank you, Owen.
    I was confused because I understand that other ranks had a different cap badge... A bit odd, isn`t it?

    1st Dragoons.jpg

    So, I suppose these men below could also be in the 1st Dragoon Guards. The pic is from the same album: Three Brit soldiers.jpg
     
  4. alberk

    alberk Well-Known Member

  5. Uncle Target

    Uncle Target Mist over Dartmoor

    Alberk #3 From my experience Officers nearly always wear a different cap badge to O/R's even if they look the same from a distance they are usually different in Quality (and certainly in cost). Its one way that the men identify an officer close up.
    In WW2 (and much so today), the officers bought most of their kit themselves whilst the O/R badges were mass produced the officers were from a different source.

    e.g. They often bought their own boots. (This officer lost a lot of his kit in battle).
    Charge the damage up to me.
    I’ve been unlucky recently and lost pretty well everything except what I stand up in.
    My urgent need is for an excellent pair of boots. Here is the formula: Saxone Veldtshoen type size 9 1/2 broad fitting.
    Have these fitted with clump soles and studded with flower shaped studs.
    Register them before sending and I’ll hope for the best.
    In WW2 however many Regiments had minor changes to what they wore due to shortages of supply.
     
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  6. Richard Lewis

    Richard Lewis Member

    David Fitzherbert Bradstock

    Supplement to the London Gazette 21 December 1944.

    Bradstock.jpg

    WO 373/49/579
    Recommendation for Award for Bradstock, David Fitzherbert Rank: Lieutenant, Service No: 289331, Regiment: Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Dragoons.

    Bradstock WO-373-49-579.jpg

    On 1 Sep 44 this officer was ordered to take his troop to the village of LA CHAUSSEE TIRANCOURT to protect the left flank of the AMIENS bridgehead. He entered the village unopposed along a sunken road. When in the village his whole troop was ambushed by SS Tps and he was surrounded. By the skilful handling of his troop and by his coolness, he was able to fight his way out, killing and wounding many Germans at ranges as close as ten yards, using his Sten Gun from the turret. He remained to the last and covered the withdrawal. Shortly afterwards the enemy withdrew as a result of this action, and 20 German dead were found, all killed by Lt. BRADSTOCK.
    Without his determination and bravery, his Troop must have been destroyed.​

    Died 28 September 2009. (Source: Person Page)
     
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  7. alberk

    alberk Well-Known Member

    Hello Richard Lewis- thank you! What a remarkable find!
    Best
    Alex
     
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