Any idea on this badge please.

[CampX]

I have a few of those, and a bag of pips also!! LOL

Dean O
Ajax Canada

[Thanatos]

Hi mate,
The crowns are incanted the right way up on Australian uniform it's just we walk upside down on the bottom of the planet.

Cheers cobber

Dave

[Jerry B]

Prior to 1883 the crown was the rank badge for a Captain and only after that date did it become that of a Major.

[Michael Ryan]

Hi Rudder, Look at what you have started!!! LOL
Cheers MR

[Michael Ryan]

G'day Cobber (Dave), Damn, I seem to get everything wrong!! But it must hurt your head when you walk upside down? But I suppose being Ausies you probably don't notice it, the pain that is??? LOL
Cheers MR

[Thanatos]

As we are aware embroidered crowns were worn on the sleeves of British Army Majors over the period 1902-1920. (General Pattern).




This style was being phased out by 1917.
There was also a Scottish version that differed from the General Pattern

Cheers

Dave

[Jerry B]

As we are aware embroidered crowns were worn on the sleeves of British Army Majors over the period 1902-1920. (General Pattern).




This style was being phased out by 1917.
There was also a Scottish version that differed from the General Pattern

Cheers

Dave

Very nice Dave, I'd love to add a cuff rank tunic to my collection. I would have to disagree with you about the date though, as the "wind up" tunic with shoulder rank insignia was already being worn by mid 1915 for frontline use, so cuff rank was strictly speaking being phased out earlier than you suggest, though some of the regiments were resistant to that, hence the term "wind up" tunic.

[Thanatos]

Hi Jerry,
I think the change was implemented due to the "obvious" nature of the cuff rank insignia. They stood out far to much.
I believe the shoulder rank system was given official sanction in 1917 as an optional alternative but was worn earlier than this date by Field officers on the front line, being made permanent in 1920, when the cuff rank (General Pattern) was finally abolished.
Not my Tunic mate only an example, I wish I was though.

Cheers

Dave

[Jerry B]

Also comes as an embroidered slip on.

[CBH]

And a couple more , cloth slip on WWII also a Falklands era DPM slip on .