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    Prior to 1767 buttons in the British Army bore no regimental designs or identifications. The infantry and cavalry were , in 1751, numbered in order of precedence, the infantry from 1 to 70 and the cavalry, excluding the household cavalry and dragoon guards from 1st to 13th Dragoons. The infantry after 1751 became know as regiments of foot i.e. 10th Regiment of Foot

    The end of a quarter-century of war with the French brought the usual post-war army cuts even though Britain had acquired a vastly larger empire. Some of these reductions proved premature, and the 94th, 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, and 99th Regiments of Foot were added to the British Army in 1823-24.

     

     

     

    Victorian brooch - male in military uniform signed Mc Donald

     


     

    One half of a general service dress buckle. The other half is the Honi Soit Qui Garter.

     

     

    Scottish regiment cap badge
    The Kings Hussars silver badge

    5th Battalion The Queens ( Royal West Surry Regiment)

    Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

    THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS (1914 -1918)

    THE ESSEX REGIMENT Formed in 1881 from The 44th. (East Essex) Regiment of Foot (1st Battalion) & The 56th. (West Essex) Regiment of Foot. (2nd Battalion). Nicknames:- "The Two Fours", "The Little Fighting Fours", "The Pompadours" & "Saucy Pompeys.

     

    WWI Royal artillery
    56th Regiment of foot badge
    West Yorkshire regiment lapel badge
    Suffolk regiment lapel badge
    WWI Essex regiment cap badge
    Kent regiment cap badge
    Officer Army lapel rank insignia
    Army officer shoulder rank insignia - blue and red enamel

    Lancashire Fusiliers

    cap badge LF

    Middlesex regiment cap badge

    Royal Marines collar badge

    Royal fuseliers cap badge

    Lancashire Fusiliers

    cap badge

    10th Btn (Territorial) Manchester Regiment shoulder title

    Great find WWI Royal flying corp cap bdge
    WWI British Army officers training corp - Cambridge University
    WW1 Manchester Regiment lapel badge

    Royal West Surrey Collar badge (lamb facing right)

    Royal Engineers badge

    RE Sweetheart

    7th City of London Regiment badge

    The London Regiment was formed on 1st April 1908 when the old Volunteer battalions became part of the new Territorial Force. In the majority of cases the new Territorial battalions were linked to a regiment of the regular army but the London Regiment was unique in that it contained no regular battalions.
    It was the largest infantry regiment in the army with 26 battalions in peacetime, eventually increasing to 88 battalions over the course of the First World War.
    It was also the only regiment in the army that did not have a regimental badge - each battalion having its own individual cap badge.
    Its battalions were frequently made up of men recruited from the same part of London, such as the 11th battalion (the Finsbury Rifles) or who followed the same occupation - the 8th battalion (Post Office Rifles ), or who were expatriates living in London - the 14th battalion (London Scottish).

    The battalion was known as 'The Shiny Seventh'. Their drill hall was at Finsbury Square

    The 1/7th landed in France in March 1915.

    Welsh Regiment Could be POW Leinster) Cap Badge

    The Devonshire regiment cap badge
    20thC Royal Hertfordshire regiment cap badge

    Lancashire Fusiliers Glengarry Badge

    Royal fuseliers regiment cap badge

    Ordnance corp collar badge may be anything up to 1950’s

    Royal Artillery cap badge
    RFA- Royal Fleet Auxiliary regiment lapel badge West Somerset Regiment lapel badge
    Royal fuseliers cap badge
    WWII Royal artillery badge WWI Huge Crown mount WWI - Essex regiment lapel badge

    This looks to be a foreigh European bugle. It isn’t of the bugles used by the british. AT a push it may be a glengarry badge of the 105th  Madras Light Infantry???

    Royal Army medical corp badge Essex regiment cap badge
    Army lapel badge - Lancashire Fusiliers
    Jewelled Army badge WW1 THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY CAP BADGE
    WW1 THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY CAP BADGE Royal Artillery cap badge Early 19thC 6th regiment of foot badge
    WWII Canadian forces badge Royal Artillery cap badge

    Border regiment sweetheart badge

    Royal fuseliers cap badge Worcestershire Regiment badge Royal Army Service Corp badge
    WWI Royal Army Service Corp badge WW1 Royal Artillery cap badge WW1 Royal Engineers cap badge
    Rifle Brigade badge York and Lancaster Regiment badge WWII Army Service Corp badge
    WWI Royal Engineers badge WW1 Australian Commonwealth Military forces badge WW1 Royal Artillery cap badge
    WW1 East Lancashire cap badge The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 1914 - 1918 WWII Royal Air Force sweet heart badge
    WWI Kings Own )Yorkshire Light Infantry) regiment cap badge WWI Middlesex Regiment cap badge WWI Essex Regiment cap badge
    The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) badge

    Military badge

    Domine dirige nos

    Lord, direct us —motto of the City of London

    WWII Army Service Corp badge

    Norfolk Yeomanry 1901-1910

    East Surry Regiment lapel badge

    Queens Own Dorset Yeomanry

    Essex Regiment enamelled badge

    Essex sweetheart

    WWII RAF silver sweet heart brooch

    Army badge

    London Scottish Regiment formed 1859

    THE ESSEX REGIMENT Formed in 1881 from The 44th. (East Essex) Regiment of Foot (1st Battalion) & The 56th. (West Essex) Regiment of Foot. (2nd Battalion). Nicknames:- "The Two Fours", "The Little Fighting Fours", "The Pompadours" & "Saucy Pompeys.

    Solid silver - Royal Navy artillery badge

    The Royal Naval Artillery Reserve or Volunteers as they were initially known, were established in 1873 and were recruited from either keen amateur sailors or those who were in the merchant service.

    Superb WWII find

    Maginot line unit insignia, in use between 1936 and 1940

    "They shall not pass" (French: "Ils ne passeront pas/On ne passe pas";

    It was most famously used during the Battle of Verdun in World War I by French General Robert Nivelle (although some have attributed it to his commander, Philippe Pétain). It appears on propaganda posters, such as that by Maurice Neumont after the Second Battle of the Marne, which was later adopted on uniform badges by units manning the Maginot Line.

     

     

    THE 8TH (KING'S ROYAL IRISH) HUSSARS (1804 - 1954)
    Upper section of a Royal Artillery cap badge - 1902 - 1952
    THE 5TH. (PRINCESS OF WALES'S) DRAGOON GUARDS
    North Yorkshire Regt (Princess of Wales Own)
    9th LONDON REGIMENT (QUEEN VICTORIA'S RIFLES)
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    THE ROYAL MARINE ARTILLERY (PRE 1922)

    Royal Regiment of Artillery (collar)
    THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS (1914 -1918)

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    East Surry Regiment Badge

    The Regimental Badge was a combination of the badges which were worn by the 1st Royal Surrey Militia and the 3rd Royal Surrey Militia (x)

    1881 Amalgamation with 70th Regiment to become 1st Bn The East Surrey Regiment

    Essex Regiment cap badge

    THE ESSEX REGIMENT Formed in 1881 from The 44th. (East Essex) Regiment of Foot (1st Battalion) & The 56th. (West Essex) Regiment of Foot. (2nd Battalion). Nicknames:- "The Two Fours", "The Little Fighting Fours", "The Pompadours" & "Saucy Pompeys.

    Essex Regiment cap badge
    Victorian era Corps of Royal Engineers
    Royal Artillery

    Part of Leicester regiment badge

    Navy badge ?
    King and Empire, Services rendered medal. What a neat find
    Royal Army Medical Corp (c)
    10th Reg insignia
    Royal Sussex Regiment
    Royal Air force silver wings badge
    THE YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT
    East Somerset Yeomanry cap badge
    Another Nazi badge probably from the Dornier bomber crash site
    WWII Nazi Swastica from a downed German bomber
    Swastica
    WWII Army Educational Corp badge
    Essex Regiment cap badge
    Leicester Regiment lapel insignia - probably 1940's
    5th Dragoon guards
    WWII Army badge
    1940 Queens Own Hussars
    THE ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS (GEORGE V1)
    WWII Regiment belt slide
    London Veteren Reserve badge

    Essex Regiment badge

    Collar badge

    WWII officers rank insignia military badge
    21st Lancers badge
    Royal Corps of signals badge
    WWI flying badge - 1.05g, 14.64mm

    Huge military helmet badge with Latin inscription and thistle

    Scots Guard (size may be a pouch badge)

    Engineers and Artillery Collar Badge

    95th Canadian Infantry Batt'n
    The Durham light infantry badge

    Engineers and Artillery Collar Badge

    Royal Scots Fusiliers Collar

    WWII pressed copper 7th/11th Lancers hat badge
    'The Kings' regiment badge
    German Eagle insignia
    Somerset Regiment lapel badge

    WWI 6th Rifle Battalion badge

    Royal artillery
    Suffolk Reg cap badge
    Royal artillery
    Navy belt badge

    Prt of a two piece fusiliers shoulder title (Could be Lancashire, Royal, Scots, Irish, Munster Dublin, Northumberland

    WW1 Suffolk regiment cap badge WWI Essex regiment cap badge
    WW I THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS Royal artillery

    Part of an WW1 8th Btn Territorial shoulder title (regiment missing, but the 8th Btn Essex were a cyclist btn).

    Royal Army ordnance Corp badge WWI- WWII Essex regiment cap badge

    May be part of loyal suffolk hussars (yeomanry) or post 1922 royal inniskilling fusiliers

    WWI The Norfolk Regiment cap badge WWII RAF sweetheart badge WWII Army officer shoulder rank insignia

    WW 1 Boys Life Brigade belt buckle

    Prince of Wales feathers lead mount WWII Royal Corps of Signals WWII Essex regiment badge
    WWI Essex Regiment badge WWII - Kings crown cap badge for the Kings's Own Dorset Yeomanry. WWI - Army officers rank pip
    WWII Army lapel badge WWI Royal Artillery cap badge WWII Army cap badge
    Victorian Army badge WWII Royal Air Force cap badge WWI Royal Artillery cap badge
    WWI Royal Engineers lapel badge Unknown artillery badge - Not British, cannon facing right ?? WWI The Royal Hertfordshire Regiment cap badge
    WW1 Army Surrey regiment lapel badge

    British WWI Imperial Service badge

    The Territorial Force Imperial Service Badge was a short lived decoration of the United Kingdom  awarded to those members of the Territorial Force  who were prepared to serve outside the United Kingdom  in defence of the Empire. The conditions of enlistment for the TF laid down at their creation in 1908 did not allow for soldiers to be sent for service overseas against their will, as the TF was intended for home defence. However, any man could volunteer for the Imperial Service Section and serve abroad in times of war, which entitled him to wear this badge

    The badge was worn on the uniform immediately above the right breast pocket, i.e. the opposite side to any medal ribbons.

    The majority of those who received the award did so for services during the First World War.

    20thC Royal fusiliers enamalled badge- 1st city of London

    WWI 156th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF

    The Battalion was raised in Leeds and Grenville Counties of Ontario, with mobilization headquarters at Brockville under the authority of G.O. 151, December 22, 1915. The Battalion embarked Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the S.S. Northland on October 18, 1916, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel T.C.D. Bedeil with a strength of 28 officers and 778 other ranks, arriving on the 28th. Once in England, the Battalion was broken up and absorbed into the 2nd, 21st and 38th Infantry Battalions, the P.O.C.O.I. and the 6th Reserve Battalion. It was disbanded on September 15, 1920.

    WWI Army lapel badge

    Royal 1st Derbyshire Yeomanry

    WWI Royal Artillery badge

    Hello,
    I am metal detectorist from Czech Republic. I am also a big fan of your web sites and noticed that you have wrong inclusion of your artifact. In the middle of this page http://www.colchestertreasurehunting...essmounts.htm# you have harness with two tale lion"19th century harness decoration" but this is completely wrong. Is it a kind of cap badge from czechoslovakian army from period of the first republic (1918-1938) also used by czechoslovakian troops in foreign during WW2 https://panenske-brezany.muzeumbrand...jenska-vystroj .

    Yours faithfully


    Viktor Vrkoč

    George V Kings crown badge - probably police

    Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

    THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS (1914 -1918)

    WWII Royal Artillery enamelled badge
    WWII Royal signals regiment silver cap badge Worcestershire Regiment

    Army regiment badge

    HONI SOIT QUI MAN Y PENSE

    Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

    WWII Royal Artillery badge George V silver Royal Engineers sweetheart badge WWI Hertfordhire Yeomanry regiment cap badge
    WWII The Queens regiment Surry sweetheart badge George V Royal Engineers sweetheart badge WWII Royal Fuseliers badge

    WWI Essex federation enamelled badge

    Federation Of Womens Institutes Members
    WWI Royal Army Service Corp badge

    Army badge -Yorkshire Light Infantry ?

    Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

    Army badge -Yorkshire Light Infantry ?

    Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

    NZASC badge

    WWII New Zealand Army service corp

    Royal Artillery cap badge

    WWII Womans land Army badge

    With the country at war and all able-bodied men needed to fight, there was a shortage of labour to work on farms and in other jobs on the land. At the same time it was becoming increasingly difficult to get food imported from abroad, so more land needed to be farmed to provide homegrown food. The Women's Land Army provided much of the labour force to work this land.

    1942 - The General Service Corps of the British Army. WWII Royal Artillery badge
     
    George V Kings crown badge - probably police WWII Gloster Regiment lapel badge

    Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

    THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS (1914 -1918)

      Early Army drum shaped mount - not certain of regiment yet Worcestershire Regiment

    Army regiment badge

    HONI SOIT QUI MAN Y PENSE

    Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

    1937 Ardleigh British legion badge - Birmingham assay office

    Jeffery Colchester

    Maker W.H.H

    WWII Royal artillery badge
    WWII Royal flying corp sweet heart badge 1914-18 Canadian Red Cross Society badge
    South Africa Rifle Brigade Badge , British Military 1898-1902 WWII Surrey regiment lapel badge WWI Devonshire Yeomanry cap badge
    Army lapel badge - thistle ? Unknown military badge WWI Royal artillery cap badge
    WII Army medical Corp badge Rifle Regiment badge WWII Royal Air force badge
    WWII Royal Artillery sweet heart badge

    Original Queens Own Dorset Yeomanry Regiment Cap Badge - FIRMIN LONDON

    1920 -19408 Army Education Corp

    'Open book'

    WWII Royal Army Ordanance Corp WW1 6th Battalion City of London Rifes regiment badge WWII Royal Artillery sweet heart badge
    WWII Royal Artillery sweet heart badge WWII Royal Army medical corp WWII The Suffolk Regiment cap badge
    Rifle regiment cap badge WW1 Essex Regiment lapel badge

    1908 WWII Essex Yeomanry cap badge

    King Crown

    1908 WWII Essex Yeomanry cap badge

    King's Crown

    WWII Royal Artillery button Fusiliers lapel badge
    WW1 5th Dragoon Guards lapel badge

    WW1 badge

    The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for 280 years. It came into existence in England in 1689, as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot

    Military pendant ?
    WWII Leicestershire regiment badge

    WWII Queen Mary Regiment badge

    Surry Yeomanry

    WWII Leicestershire regiment badge
    Victorian crown mount George V military Essex cadet badge
    WWI Essex regiment badge Rifle regiment badge WWII Royal artillery cap badge

    Merchant Navy Seaman's MN On War Service Lapel Badge British Naval

    King George V bestowed the title of "Merchant Navy" on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War; a number of other nations have since adopted the title.

    WWII Essex regiment cap badge

    Merchant Navy Seaman's MN On War Service Lapel Badge British Naval

    King George V bestowed the title of "Merchant Navy" on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War; a number of other nations have since adopted the title.

    WWII Royal Artillery sweetheart badge WWII Royal fuseliers badge

    Great find - Royal Army Ordnance plated belt buckle complete

    WWI Essex regiment cap badge Queens crown mount WWII Royal Atrillery sweet heart badge
    Victorian crown badge WWII Royal Air Force badge WWII Essex Regiment lapel badge