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Description: | ESSEX TY
badge, backing plate, 2 split pins, card, seal
Thick card label, the badge on the reverse, seal on the front.
Reverse of Royal Army Clothing label used as the label for the badge, as follows:
Stamped, top left:
Metal 4480 / 1897
Stamped top right:
The .Y. is to follow design of Pattern No. 670 / 1916.
(badge and accessories)
ms, red: Sample 461 / 1915 (to left) and 2 (to right.)
ms:
Title Gilding Metal
With plate (flat - inserted) shanks & pins.
Y / ESSEX
(Essex T. Force Asstn) (?)
To Guide Provision
ms, red:
"Y to be omitted for overseas" ("for overseas" crossed through).
The be made to R.A.C.D. Speciftn. for gauge of Metal and Quality.
Bottom right:
658, crossed through, 888A stamped.
Vertically along left side, ms, red:
Obsolete 8/6/22; Auth ACS[?] / 414 / 1921. 9Arty / 7233 (TA2) [?] / 5.4.22 & S&C I D / 1642 /1
Reverse:
ms: Item / 2030
Locker 430
ms:461
Badge:
In brass, T above Y above ESSEX on a curve, three loops to reverse, over which a trapezium shaped backing plate held by two cotter pins.
The assemblage linked to the label with a length of pink cotton tape, sealed with a red sealing wax seal bearing the Royal Arms and WARE 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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