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Time for 1st class with silvered reverse Nice example

Reverse

Another 1st class with copper reverse - and we can find differences ...

Note the form of kanji - even 1 looks differently

Uncased example of 1st class with copper reverse (note stamp differences)

Another cased badge with copper colored reverse Note this sprayed silver on helmet - most likely modern work of some "renovator"

Reverse Note the form of kanji on reverse (it is practically impossible to find two badges in 1st or 2nd class with identical kanji )

Please note interesting discoloration ("silverization" ) of golden rim

1st class badge There are many mini variation of this badge. For example reverse of this badge can be a) copper colored b) silvered c) gilded Let`s start with copper. A nice cased example

Sometimes you can find NCO badges with gilded reverse. Like this one

Inscription close-up

Reverse

Details

Early badges Badge for NCO Undoubtedly the rarest of them all! Here we have a textbook example of such badge (practically in mint condition - finding this one took plenty of time )

Original name of the badge was 劍術徽章 Kenjutsu badge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenjutsu Initially badge had three classes (we will call them "early badges") Badge for NCO 1st class badge for soldiers 2nd class badge for soldiers Let`s take a look at them

The exact date of introduction of this badge is not known to me, but we know for a fact that this badge was already in use in 1934, since we found its description in army handbook that was published same year.

This will be first thread in a long planned series of threads devoted to army and navy proficiency badges. It’s time to have serious conversation about this Swordsmanship Badge (a.k.a. Bayonet Skills Badge) Ooooooooooh!

All orders were returned on December 9, 1941. Actually four of them were reissued with new numbers Order of Lenin (#7339) Order of Red Star (#20119) USSR labour banner (#5618) Badge of Honour (#15124)

He had RSFSR labour banner (unnumbered) awarded on December 13, 1932 In 1933 he was awarded with three orders Order of Lenin (#502) Order of Red Star (#159) USSR labour banner (#394) In 1936 he was awarded with 5th order - Badge of Honour (#3053) Was deprived of all his orders on 27 December, 1940

Found resolution about depriving of his awards Here it is

Charles Merewether Ducat was educated at Marlborough College and entered Sandhurst in 1880. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army in 1881, he served with the 4th Bombay Cavalry (Poona Horse) in the Burma campaigns of 1887-89 (medal with two clasps) and with the China Field Force, 1900-01, as a Special Service Officer detailed by the Imperial Government (despatches London Gazette 13 September 1901, medal without clasp). Promoted to Major in 1901, he was made brevet Lieutenant-Colonel for services in China and appointed Military Attaché, Peking, 1902-05. Becoming Colonel in 1910, he commanded the Poona Horse 1908-12, and retired in 1913.

Inscription on edge reads "Mons le Capitaine Ducat Chef du 4ieme District"

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