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Description: | SAMC
badge, backing plate, split pin, card, seal
Thick card label.
(badge & accessories)
STANDARD / No. 8730 / 1916
Title Gilding Metal / with plate and pin / South African Medical Corps
Metal 4480 Specn. 888 / 1897
Approved 27.3.16
ACD/Patterns 3111.
ms, vertical on lower right: 121/overseas/1069
Top, below badge, stamped: Obsolete 5-1-20 / A.C.D. / 39206
Reverse:
ms, red: Locker 186. ("186" scored through)
ms: 51.
Badge:
Brass "grill"-type backing plate, brass title of SAMC with two square lugs to reverse, a single long cotter pin.
Badgesecured to label with length of red cotton tape, backing plate and cotter pin secured to label with thin string, all sealed with single red sealing wax seal bearing the Royal Arms and WAR DEPARTMENT / PATTERN. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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