Artillery badge with Ypres on it plus two sweetheart badges

[Butty]

Hi,
I've been IDing my grandfathers badge collection and am OK with all but three of them.

One has a field gun on it also stamped with a small "75". I searched everywhere I can find on the web but drawn a blank. i don't even know what country it could come from.
Any help on this?
The other two I presume are sweetheart badges?

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

I would suggest the Ypres gun badge might represent the French "75", the famous 75mm field gun? I would say it is a commemorative souvenir type item.

The other two are sweethearts. The Royal West Kents is a nice example. The other for the Royal West Surrey Regt might have been designed for use as a watch fob?

Cheers, Ade.

[bichon]

Hello
Adrian is right with the french 75
I think it's a "day badge"
here is a link with some examples:
http://www.plugged-creations.com/journees/accueil.swf and go to : "Journées du canon de 75mm"
cordially
Didier

[Butty]

Thanks for quick response.
The artillery badge has a broken sprung pin fitting on the back but also a loop presumably to hang something off behind the letters P and R.