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Collections - Badges and Insignia

Cap Badges - Brass

Cap Badge, brass, found by the Reverend C J K Burnell near Hill 60 (Ypres) on 27th April 1936.  Burnell had served as a Chaplain during the First World War attached to the 1st Battalion between 1916 and 1918.
Accession Number KO0627/01

Cap Badge
Accession Number KO0759/02

Cap badge.
Accession Number KO0817/01
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1061/01
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1106/05
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1156/04
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1214/05
Four cap badges worn by the Home Guard of the King's Own Royal Regiment during the Second World War.
Accession Number KO1259/01-04
Cap badge of Private Leonard Craig, number 3704970, King's Own.
Accession Number KO1276/06
Cap badge of Sergeant John Booth, number 12141, 7th Battalion, King's Own.  Killed in action on 27 Sep 1917.
Accession Number KO1340/09
Cap badge of Private J Baines, number 35016, King's Own.
Accession Number KO1385/04
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1521/01

Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1521/02
Cap badge of Sergeant George Edward Harrison, number 23629, 8th Battalion, King's Own, who died of wounds on 1 Sep 1918.
Accession Number KO1539/09
Cap badge of Sergeant George Edward Harrison, number 23629, 8th Battalion, King's Own, who died of wounds on 1 Sep 1918.
Accession Number KO1539/10
Cap badge.  The letters are not voided as usual, this was a war time economy measure.
Accession Number KO1546/02
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1659/07
Cap badge.  The letters are not voided as usual, this was a war time economy measure.
Accession Number KO1687/02
Cap Badge.
Accession Number KO1697/01
Cap badge of Corporal Leonard Williamson, number 15929, 8th Battalion, King's Own, killed in action 13 Nov 1916.
Accession Number KO1773/05
Cap badge of Sergeant C Kelly, King's Own in both the First and Second World Wars.
Accession Number KO1784/01
Cap badge of Private John Arts, number 3704830, 2nd Battalion, King's Own, who served 1920 to 1930 and then again in the Second World War.
Accession Number KO1808/03
Cap badge, with solid lettering.  Solid letter (rather than voided) was a war time economy measure used in both the First and Second World Wars.  this badge is marked 'J R GAUNT LONDON' on the rear.
Accession Number KO1819/01
Cap badge of Sergeant Mathew Hughes MM, number 2492 and 240699, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, First World War.
Accession Number KO1820/11
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1831/05
Cap badge of Private Arthur Johnson, number 2890, King's Own.
Accession Number KO1926/26
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO1982/09
Cap badge of Sergeant Albert Holt, number 2112 and 240509, 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own, First World War.
Accession Number KO2106/07
Cap badge of Private Adam Houghton Moon, number 241886, 2nd/5th Battalion, King's Own, First World War.
Accession Number KO2286/05
Cap badge of Sergeant G Snape, number 3706175, King's Own.
Accession Number KO2332/04
Cap badge of Private William Edward Sellars, number 14594494, 1st Battalion, King's Own.
Accession Number KO2351/35
Cap badge of Lieutenant Selwyn Long-Innes, 2nd Battalion, King's Own, killed in action 4 Aug 1915.
Accession Number KO2400/09
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO2410/01
Cap badge of Rosaline Woolgar worn on the breast of her battle dress blouse jacket, whilst a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Lancaster.
Accession Number KO2435/03
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO2452/09
Cap badge of Private Arthur Edward Atherton, number 50013, King's Own.
Accession Number KO2456/03
Cap badge of Private John Winder Salkeld, number 3715377, King's Own Royal Regiment and Corps of Military Police.
Accession Number KO2473/38
Cap badge of Corporal John Leonard 'Len' Davies, number 3716447, King's Own and 107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps.
Accession Number KO2483/06
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO2490/940

Cap badge marked 'DOWLER, BIRMINGHAM'
Accession Number KO2492/18

Cap badge marked on rear 'Gaunt London'.
Accession Number KO2492/19
Cap badge of Private James Francis Gardner, number 11271, 1st King's Own, First World War.
Accession Number KO2495/04
Cap badge of Private Arthur Charles Bent, number 3710266, King's Own.  Circa 1930s.
Accession Number KO2549/004
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO2589/10
Cap badge.
Accession Number KO2602/04
Cap badge of W Newton, 5th Battalion, King's Own, First World War.
Accession Number KO2604/05
Cap badge of Private George Ormerod, number 21612, 11th Battalion, King's Own, First World War.
Accession Number KO2679/03

Cap badge of Private Herbert Pearson, number 26608, 8th Battalion, King's Own, born in Bolton-le-Sands in 1897 and enlisted on 11 Dec 1915.  Served through the First World War until discharged due to wounds on 17 Mar 1919.  The badge is marked 'F.N. B'HAM.'
Accession Number KO2705/05
Cap badge of Major Harry Horne, 2nd and 5th Battalions, King's Own, Second World War onwards.
Accession Number KO2799/01
Cap badge of Lance Corporal Douglas G Blake, number 3714582, 2nd Battalion, King's Own, killed in action on 22 Nov 1941 and buried in Tobruk Cemetery, Libya.
Accession Number KO2848/62
Cap Badge worn by Sergeant John Lacy Rowlandson, number 3708694, King’s Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Number: KO2951/007
Cap badge of Sergeant James Lindsay Greenwood MM, number 8396, 1st Battalion, King's Own, killed in action 22 Oct 1916.  The slider on the rear of the badge has been bent back.
Accession Number KO2883/017
Cap badge of Sergeant James Lindsay Greenwood MM, number 8396, 1st Battalion, King's Own, killed in action 22 Oct 1916.  The badge has been altered for a pin type fastener.
Accession Number KO2883/018

King’s Own Cap Badge, brass, with infilled lettering ‘The King’s Own’ and stamped onto thinner brass.
Accession Number KO3111/22

 
King’s Own Cap Badge, brass, First World War, Lance corporal Thomas Hutchinson, number 1477, of the 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number KO3130/09

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