I’ve been searching high and low to find what formation this is for weeks, finally handing it over to the experts here, hope you can help. Thanks in advance.
Which divisional sign is this?
I’ve been searching high and low to find what formation this is for weeks, finally handing it over to the experts here, hope you can help. Thanks in advance.
"Per Ardua"
It looks like XV (15) Indian Corps
OMG!! AB64 certainly looks like it - many, many thanks this has been driving me mad!!
badge, formation, Indian, XV Indian Corps | Imperial War Museums
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That was a tough one, I also searched but my instincts were 'Runic' in nature, great job AB64 !
I'd rather be A "RaD Man than a Mad Man "
Yep, you beat me to it, I was out at the shopby AB64
how sad is that ? I missed a post just because I had popped out
You would think I was here all day and night
15 Corps has a history covering WWI - WWII and the present day. It is currenty the formation responsible for Indian Army Ops in Kashmir region.
The actually sign does look runic and bears a passing resmblance to the Odal rune (7th SS Prinz Eugen) with the top cropped but is actually 3 x V which is said to represent 15 in Roman numerals (actually XV is 15 of course so this is just 3 x 5). It is the same formation in reality today but they now use a different formation sign since independance;
so I suppose that plaque must most likely be pre-1947
Regards
Mark
Last edited by Watchdog; 10-21-2020 at 01:46 PM. Reason: Typo
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Thanks Mark, probably should have come straight on here!!
"Per Ardua"
Yep, there's masses of untapped knowledge on here so always worth a punt
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
I was definitely looking in the wrong Military group...
I was thinking Panzer Divisions and then I thought Luftwaffe formations (fighter, bomber, night fighter etc.) then I switched my search to Kriegsmarine...
Look all through my German Military Symbols book (dated 1945) and had no luck there either...
Glad it was identified for you..
Best regards
Smitty
cheers Smitty, my fault, should've mentioned that I knew it was British.
"Per Ardua"
That's the trouble, without additional visual information in the frame the brain immediately tries to fit an image to something it can recognise. That's how visual deception works all the time!
My immediate thought was of the Odal rune even though I knew that was wrong. Sometimes "say what you see" is quite the opposite of what one should do
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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