badge, headdress, British, Royal Navy, cap tally, HMS Hood | Imperial War Museums

description

Physical description

badge 'HMS HOOD' embroidered in gold onto a black cap tally.

Label

'HMS Triumph' has been assigned to the following ships: Battleship, built in Chatham Dockyard in July 1891 and sunk in November 1914; Battlecruiser, built by John Brown in August 1918 and sunk, in action with the Bismarck and Prinze Eugen, south of Greenland, in May 1941.

Inscription

HMS HOOD

Object details

Category: Uniforms and insignia
Related period: First World War (association), Second World War (association)
Materials: whole: cloth
Dimensions: whole: Height 30 mm, Width 880 mm
Catalogue number: INS 42244

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