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Description: | badges x 10, card, seal
Thick card label:
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Badges: On small rectangles of dark blue wool, backed with oatmeal fabric, the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 0 embroidered in red.
STANDARD. / No. 9501 / 1917 .
Stamped, left: Specn. A.C.D. / 819a ("a"?)
Stamped: SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR CORPS
Stamped, centre: Numerals embroidered, red / on cloth blue No. 2. ("Cloth blue No. 2" crossed through)
Stamped, vertical, left: Cloth blue Union Melton / 30-7-18 . ms: 21/8/15
ms, right: 5.7.17 / 54/misc/565 / also for Chinese Labour Corps
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Approved: 7.6.17
A.C.D. Patterns: 54 / MISC / 566 . 10.5.17
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3523
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Stamped, centre: Obsolete 5.1.20 / A.C.D. / 39206 ("39206" crossed through)
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Reverse, ms:
304, (struck through), 57 written in.
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Badges secured to label with a length of thread, sealed to reverse with oval red sealing wax seal bearing the Royal Arms encircled by 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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