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THE CITY OF LONDON YEOMANRY ROUGH RIDERS OFFICERS PAGRI FLASH

A vary rare Officers bullion Rough Riders Pagri flash.

88 mm x 65 mm.

The City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) was a yeomanry regiment of the British Territorial Army, formed in 1901 from veterans of the Second Boer War. In World War I it served dismounted in the Gallipoli Campaign but reverted to the mounted role in the Senussi campaign, at Salonika and in Palestine. It ended the war as a machine gun unit on the Western Front. In the interwar years it was reduced to a battery in a composite Royal Horse Artillery unit in London, but in the period of rearmament before World War II it was expanded into a full regiment of light anti-aircraft artillery. It served in this role during The Blitz and later in the Tunisian and Italian campaigns.

Code: 54693

320.00 GBP

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WW1 KINGS SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY / 8th BATTALION LEEDS RIFLES ROIX DE GUERRE ROSETTE COCKADE.

A rare ribbon rosette, cockade, complete with central button " cap badge " with rusted pin fitting and two blades to the reverse. The cockade formed from the ribbon of the French Croix De Guerre worn on the service dress cap by the 4th. Battalion K.S.L.I & 8th Battalion The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) (Leeds Rifles). The French Croix De Guerre Awarded to certain British Units by the French Army in WW I for their support, most units wear it as a strip of ribbon on the arm.

The 1st/4th King's Shropshire Light Infantry wore a C de G cockade on the service cap up to 1941.
The tradition is now maintained by officers, WOs and sergeants of Bn HQ and E Coy of 5 LI (Volunteers).
The cockade consists of a rosette with central button and two swallow tails in the red and green of the C de G ribbon.

4th Bn KSLI, in commemoration of the gallant exploits of 1/4 KSLI at La Montagne dear Bligny on 6/6/1918 all personnel were on 3/6/1922 presented with cockades of 1914-18 C Dr G ribbon to be worn on the left side of the SD caps by all ranks.
On 1/8/1941 as an economy measure the wearing of the cockade was restricted to officers and members of the band. All other personally wore instead a 1/2" deep shoulder flash of the C de G ribbon (without the original bronzed palm emblem) at the shoulder point on both sleeves of the BD blouse.

Army Order Number 431

Grant of Honorary Distinction

His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the 8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) being permitted to wear in their headdresses on all ceremonial parades, a Cockade of the Colours of the French Croix de Guerre in commemoration of their exploits at La Montaigne de Bligny in 1918, for which they were 'cité' in the Orders of the 5th French Army.

Code: 54609

280.00 GBP

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WW1 CHINESE LABOUR CORPS CAP BADGE, WORN BY THE "COOLIES"

A scarce badge, with four blade fixings.

The Chinese Labour Corps were a force of workers recruited by the British government in World War I to free troops for front line duty by performing support work and manual labour. The French government also recruited a significant number of Chinese labourers, and although those labourers working for the French were recruited separately and not part of the CLC, they are often considered to be so. In all, some 140,000 men served for both British and French forces before the war ended and most of the men were repatriated to China between 1918 and 1920.

Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Labour_Corps

Code: 54390

140.00 GBP

THE CITY OF LONDON YEOMANRY ROUGH RIDERS OFFICERS PAGRI FLASH

WW2 ROYAL AIR FORCE FOREIGN SERVICE HELMET PAGRI FLASH

GUARDS DEPOT CROSS COUNTRY TRACKSUIT BADGE

WW1 KINGS SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY / 8th BATTALION LEEDS RIFLES ROIX DE GUERRE ROSETTE COCKADE.

8TH ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY, 5TH AA BRIGADE ROYAL ARTILLERY PAGRI BADGE, INDIA

65TH (HOWITZER) FIELD BATTERY, 3RD FIELD BRIGADE ROYAL ARTILLERY PAGRI BADGE

38TH/61ST FIELD BATTERY, 14TH FIELD BRIGADE ROYAL ARTILLERY PAGRI BADGE, INDIA

WW1 CHINESE LABOUR CORPS CAP BADGE, WORN BY THE "COOLIES"

11th ROYAL TANK CORPS PAGRI FLASH

WW1 BRITISH KNUCKLE DUSTER