boonicootza Posted January 20, 2023 Posted January 20, 2023 I can't find information about this shoulder title. Can somebody help me? Thanks
Jerry B Posted February 7, 2023 Posted February 7, 2023 in Jon Mill's badges on battledress p681 #3178, unattributed but often associated with 52nd div in Europe after D Day 1
Guards Armoured Posted February 13, 2023 Posted February 13, 2023 I have an identical shoulder title in my collection and have probably had it for 30 years now. The only other theory I have come across is that it might be a British-made tab for the US Army‘s 10th Mountain Division. The “MOUNTAIN” tab was only granted when the division was about to deploy to Italy in late 1943, so many members did not wear the tab or acquired locally made versions in Italy (often of woven construction / BeVo style). As far as I can work out the division never got anywhere near the UK during its wartime existence, so I am not sure why there would be a British-made tab. The shoulder title does not look quite right with either formation sign/patch, does it? I have added the airborne tab in the picture for comparison because it has the right dimensions and colours (white on infantry blue) and I haven’t got the correct MOUNTAIN tab in my collection. I am leaning slightly more to the US theory as the shape seems too far off to be an alternative version for the 52nd division, but hopefully there are other opinions in this forum - anyone? 1
boonicootza Posted February 17, 2023 Author Posted February 17, 2023 Thank you both for your opinion. 1
Farkas Posted February 26, 2023 Posted February 26, 2023 I’ve just seen one of these described as... 1940’s - British Army. ”Supplementary general title for all Mountain Division, Royal Artillery (RA) Units, 52nd Mountain Div.” tony
Guards Armoured Posted March 1, 2023 Posted March 1, 2023 Tony, is this what you were referring to? https://www.olympiaauctions.com/sales/arms-armour/as240418/view-lot/85/ Somehow looks quite convincing ... 1
Jerry B Posted March 2, 2023 Posted March 2, 2023 seems a very vague collector description for something he didn't know the answer to. he obviously had a great collection 1
Farkas Posted March 3, 2023 Posted March 3, 2023 On 01/03/2023 at 18:07, Guards Armoured said: Tony, is this what you were referring to? https://www.olympiaauctions.com/sales/arms-armour/as240418/view-lot/85/ Somehow looks quite convincing ... It wasn’t but the similarity of the description is surely too much for mere chance, i wonder if 👇 was copied from the one you found? I doubt they had the same book 🤷♂️ Maybe the collector was wrong, was copied by 👇 and so am I? One thing i notice is these 2 have the same stitching, most noticeably the vertical lines on the M and the N, different to Boonicootza’s example... tony Gents, just as I decided it must be US 10th mountain, i had to find this ☹️ The stitching matches boonicootza’s 🤔 tony
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