Unknown badges

[Mondvor]

Gentlemen, would you please help me to identify those two badges. Are they rare? My primary area of interest is Soviet awards, so I don't know anything about British medals

Thanks!

[Mondvor]

Second badge.

[Paul L Murphy]

The first is a WWI period other ranks cap badge of the Army Cyclist Corps, a reasonably scarce badge. I believe the second is an other ranks cap badge of the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Not particularly scarce but a nice badge nonetheless.

[Mondvor]

Oh, thanks!! I thought they were from WWII

[Paul L Murphy]

The second badge is from WWII, sorry I did not specify the time period in my earlier post.

Regards,

Paul

[Laurence Strong]

Hi Mondvor

It's possible that the second one is WW2, as you know they are the Royal GreenJackets now, my all time favorite British Regt.

The Oxfordshire and Buckinhamshire Light Infantry (43rd & 52nd)

World War II (1939-45)

The 43rd and 1st Bucks Battalion (TA) were in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 and escaped through Dunkirk after suffering heavy casualties. Another TA battalion (4th Oxf Bucks) was encircled by the Germans and overrun. The regiment was represented by the 7th Battalion in Tunisia and Italy (at the Anzio and Salerno landings), the 43rd in North-West Europe (in the advan?e from Normandy to Hamburg) and by the 6th in Burma (from Arakan down the west coast to Tamandu). The 52nd was chosen to pioneer the new role of airlanding by glider. At midnight before the D-Day landings in Normandy coup de main parties from the battalion siezed and held the bridges over the Caen Canal (Pegasus Bridge) and River Orne (Horsa Bridge). In March 1945 the battalion carried out a costly assault landing as part of the operation to cross the Rhine before fighting its way across Germany to meet up with the Russians on the Baltic.

[Mondvor]

Thanks a lot, gentlemen! It's always good to learn more about the historical evnts behind those badges

[leigh kitchen]

The ACC badge is a 16 spoke variation, others being 14 spoke & 12 spoke?

The Oxf & Bucks LI badge was also worn Victorian through WWI periods, one of the badges that just kept plodding on with no change of design or metals apart from temporary economy variations in material as it bore no crown or cypher that required altering with change of monarch.