E Battery Badge 1933

The photo of this George V badge comes from an article in the Bulletin of the Military Historical Society no. 141 August 1985, written by Norman B H Litchfield. He wrote this about the badge: ‘When units served overseas, particularly in India, War Office Dress Regulations were not so strictly applied as at home, and it was not uncommon for changes in various items of insignia to be made on the individual inclinations of Commanding Officers: provided the cost of any such change was not at public expense! Thus it is believed that sometime after 1926 when “E” Battery RHA were stationed in India, the officer commanding the battery introduced a small white metal badge bearing the cypher of George V for wear by all members of the battery on the puggaree at the front of the Wolseley helmet. This badge is known to have been in use as early as 1933. On the death of George V new badges were immediately ordered by the battery, with Edward VIII’s cypher, and the style was changed slightly. However, by the time the battery had received and issued this badge, Edward had abdicated and George VI had come to the throne, and so another badge bearing the George VI cypher had to be ordered; this time in the same style as the Edward VIII badge’.

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