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WW2 British Army RAOC Officer's Private Purchase Enamelled Lapel Badges 1939-45

Description: A striking and unissued pair of World War Two British Army Royal Ordnance Corps Officer's Enamelled Collar Badges 1939-45 The RAOC were often another unsung & unheralded Regiment in WW-II history, but actually had a vital & critical role in, amongst many others, in keeping the British Army's front-line Regiments fully supplied with weapons & ammunition in combat. In addition they also were responsible for the maintenance of weapons, general military equipment & vehicles (before the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers were created in 1942 to take over this latter & other technical roles). But one of the most important roles allocated in WW-II to the RAOC (and also the Royal Engineers) was bomb disposal in which one man in every 20 was lost in this hazardous task. A superb, completely unissued, pair officers RAOC coloured enamel collar badges, (complete with their original outfitter's label), these most attractive badges were found amongst war-time stock of Oswald Bailey a former military outfitters here in the South. For some reason each were sold separately and each is complete with its original price tag, one of 5/- (or 25 pence!) and the other 4.3d (21.5p) At war's end in May 1945 the owner's of Oswald Bailey immediately started buying up the army's now surplus stock of tents, canvas rolls, mess-tins & outdoor clothing and selling to the general public. This was immediately snapped up by a population deprived by war, so leading to Oswald Bailey later becoming a famous High Street camping & outdoor clothing retail company. Thanks for looking..! (B/W Image courtesy of The Tomahawk Films WW-II Archive)

Price: 50 GBP

Location: Winchester, Hampshire

End Time: 2025-01-13T08:15:12.000Z

Shipping Cost: 18.3 GBP

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Item Specifics

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Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted

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Return policy details: Alderney Vintage Collectibles offer a returns policy, subject to the normal rules of business etiquette & fair trading! Please contact us in the first instance by e-mail or 'phone if any subsequent problems arise after a successful purchase & delivery from us has been completed.

Issued/ Not-Issued: Issued

Dieppe: Dunkirk

Gold Beach: Juno Beach

Operation Varsity: The Rhine Crossings

Remagen: Omaha Beach

WW2 German: Third Reich

D-Day June 6th 1944: Sword Beach

Operation Market Garden: Arnhem

Country/ Organization: Great Britain

Blitzkrieg: Waffen-SS

US Airborne: Parachute Regiment

Utah Beach: Pegasus Bridge

Clothing Type: Helmets/ Hats

Battle of The Bulge: The West Wall

Berlin: Winston Churchill

Home Guard: ARP

Service: Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Type: Badges

6th Airborne: Falaise Gap

Conflict: World War II (1939-1945)

Era: 1914-1945

Theme: Militaria

Dunkirk: Operation Overlord

The Ardennes: Bayeux

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

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