description
Physical description
badge, card, seal
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Thick card label
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Royal Army Clothing Department / Sample 1 / Pattern No 8598 / 1915 / 2nd King Edwards Horse Regt.
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badge: Headdress badge to the 2nd King Edward's Horse (King's Overseas Dominion Regiment), being a wreath, left arm of laurel, right arm of oak, a King's crown joining the tips of the wreath, below the crown and extending across the top of the wreath, a scroll bearing KING EDWARD'S HORSE, with a small label between the centre of the scroll and the crown inscribed 2nd. Scrolls on the wreath inscribed: (left) Canada, N. Zealand and (right) Australia, S.Africa. In the centre of the wreath a shield bearing the Royal Arms and below this three scrolls inscribed India, Crown Colonies, 1914; below the wreath a scroll inscribed Empire and Liberty. Slider to reverse.
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ms, centre right, adjacent to badge: Obsolete.
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Badge, Forage Cap, & Foreign Pattern Helmet. All Ranks
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(When finished to be White Metal 12 gauge; Gilding Metal 14 gauge. - deleted)
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ms: (For quality see 4480/1897, deleted)
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Specification for Metal No. (ACD/603, 658, 888A, deleted). U/24.
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Approved 17/12/15; authority given as ACD/Patterns/3026 & ACD/TF/216
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Reverse:
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ms: 1818; Locker (230 - deleted), 197 written in.
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Badge secured to label with pink cotton tape, sealed to reverse with a red sealing wax seal bearing the Royal Arms encircled War Department Pattern.
Embossed
2ND KING EDWARD'S HORSE CANADA AUSTRALIA N.ZEALAND S.AFRICA INDIA CROWN COLONIES 1914 EMPIRE AND LIBERTY
