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Article about: Dear fellows, I found this badge of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire regiment. I alwais see online british postwar badges, I would like to know if this badge is original and wartime or not. Th

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    Default British badge wartime or postwar?

    Dear fellows,
    I found this badge of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire regiment. I alwais see online british postwar badges, I would like to know if this badge is original and wartime or not.
    Thank you!!

    British badge wartime or postwar?

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    The same badge was used up to 1958 from before WWI.
    Regards,

    Jerry

    Whatever its just an opinion.

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    Hi Jerry, thank you for your reply.
    The badge that I post is whitout text in the middle of the cross and is made brass. Is impossible to undestad if is a postwar model?

    Thank you!

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    The regiment was formed in 1919. Previous to that, it was the Bedfordshire regiment. The (regular) regiment disbanded in 1958. That badge is either a copy - or a very badly worn original. I have a blackened Bedfordshire regiment badge mounted (of all places) on a WW1 Mills bomb.

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    Steve is correct, not formed ub
    Regards,

    Jerry

    Whatever its just an opinion.

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    Steve is correct, not formed until 1919, just bedfords before then. My error from searching on the phone and not the computer
    Regards,

    Jerry

    Whatever its just an opinion.

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    Quote by Jerry B View Post
    Steve is correct, not formed until 1919, just bedfords before then. My error from searching on the phone and not the computer
    Your lucky Jerry, I can't get on the internet with my mobile!

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    Hi Steve,
    I found this badge on an old univeritary humoristic hat in Italy, called "goliardo" hat, I dont know how this badge arrive on this particolar hat: the "goliardo" was given to student at the end of their studies, with a lot of umoristics iteam on it.

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