Please help identify these cap badges!

Herr-Berbunch · 11-08-11, 08:14 AM

A work colleague has just asked me to identify some cap/collar badges, a couple I could do, a couple he already knew, but these three are avoiding recognition:

Thanks in advance (for the serious answers).

Hottentot · 11-08-11, 08:26 AM

I don't know if I can help with the badges themselves, but I'd be interested to know if you can provide any information on their origins as objects: where did your colleague get them from? Are they from a single source or from some wider collection? Can any rough date be given to them (1950s, 1960s, or something?) Any idea of their geographical context (British military, for example)? How do they relate to the ones you have already identified?

Any background would surely narrow down the search in case anyone doesn't happen to know their origins from the top of their head.

Oberon · 11-08-11, 08:28 AM

The one in the middle seems to be to do with the Sudan Defence Force...

I'd wager the one on the far right is South African in origin...but SC...I don't know...they could all be Sudanese in origin.

Herr-Berbunch · 11-08-11, 08:38 AM

The others were East York. Regiment, and there was the SDF badge with the guy on a camel.

Nope, I won't photo the rest. He's taken them, but there was an East Yorks badge and a button, two London Irish Rifles badges, the three pictured and the S.D.F-camel-guy one.

So not that many then.

Dowly · 11-08-11, 09:33 AM

1. Possibly Somaliland Scouts, the other SS badge I saw was silver and with crown on top of the S
2. Some SDF badge as Oberon said, seen another version of it too that pointed to SDF
3. No idea about this one, couldn't find anything. The closes I probably got was
Somaliland Camel Corps, but even there the only similarity was that both had
horns. (and SC = Somaliland Cameliers?

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11-08-11, 08:14 AM	#1
Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	Please help identify these cap badges! A work colleague has just asked me to identify some cap/collar badges, a couple I could do, a couple he already knew, but these three are avoiding recognition: Thanks in advance (for the serious answers). __________________

11-08-11, 08:26 AM	#2
Hottentot Sea Lord Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: My private socialist utopia of Finland Posts: 1,918 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	I don't know if I can help with the badges themselves, but I'd be interested to know if you can provide any information on their origins as objects: where did your colleague get them from? Are they from a single source or from some wider collection? Can any rough date be given to them (1950s, 1960s, or something?) Any idea of their geographical context (British military, for example)? How do they relate to the ones you have already identified? Any background would surely narrow down the search in case anyone doesn't happen to know their origins from the top of their head. __________________ Хотели как лучше, а получилось как всегда.

11-08-11, 08:38 AM	#4
Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	The others were East York. Regiment, and there was the SDF badge with the guy on a camel. Nope, I won't photo the rest. He's taken them, but there was an East Yorks badge and a button, two London Irish Rifles badges, the three pictured and the S.D.F-camel-guy one. So not that many then. __________________ Last edited by Herr-Berbunch; 11-08-11 at 08:49 AM.

11-08-11, 08:28 AM	#3
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	The one in the middle seems to be to do with the Sudan Defence Force... I'd wager the one on the far right is South African in origin...but SC...I don't know...they could all be Sudanese in origin.

11-08-11, 09:33 AM	#5
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	1. Possibly Somaliland Scouts, the other SS badge I saw was silver and with crown on top of the S 2. Some SDF badge as Oberon said, seen another version of it too that pointed to SDF 3. No idea about this one, couldn't find anything. The closes I probably got was Somaliland Camel Corps, but even there the only similarity was that both had horns. (and SC = Somaliland Cameliers? )