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Military button ID please
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If the button is flat and not concave then it maybe a mess military button. The Royal Pembrokes usually had the POW ( Prince of Wales feathers) on all the buttons associated with the rifle's. Interesting find though, Im always happy digging up a potential military or civil organisation button. ![[81/]](./images/smilies/81_EmoticonsHDcom.png "ThumbsUp"){kind=small} Thanks Koala, that's very interesting. I guess the question is then: how (a) different to this button and (b) different to each other, are the four button types you have identified?
Hi Rockfish, how do you know that the "Royal Pembrokes usually had the POW ( Prince of Wales feathers) on all the buttons associated with the rifles" ?
I have looked high and low for a RPR button, with or without Prince of Wales feathers, with no success - you apparently seem to have found at least one. Can you post a pic of the RPR buton for us to see? Moving from the particular to the general, I do not understand how you can blithely assert that rifle regiments usually had the POW feathers. If you look at the buttons of any of the rifle regiments, not one has feathers. Look at the three most famous, the 95th, the 43rd and the 52nd, for example, or any of the other 10 rifle regiments of the Napoleonic period.
He said that the Royal Pembrokes had PoW feathers on the insignia of their rifle units, which is probably correct, at least for a time after 1811 by which time the 'Militia' had evolved into 'Rifles' via 'Fusiliers' and 'Light Infantry'. All the name and role changes over just a few years make it really difficult to keep track of what uniforms were used by who. The Welsh Volunteers Units did tend to use prominent PoW feathers though and if the buttons were constantly changing you would have thought that there would be records of the changes and a few examples. The change to Rifles in 1811 was significant because rifle regiments wore a completely different uniform to line regiments and no doubt even the volunteers were eventually kitted out properly. I am amazed at how poorly documented all of this is. ![[88/]](./images/smilies/88_EmoticonsHDcom.png "BigGrin"){kind=small}
They were written about in the military dress code manuals, Plus the part the book about the about buttons is on a military forum Of the four known types none are similar None are crowned RPR Putting initials together and coming to a conclusion may or may not be correct, same as a lot of stuff as identified via eBay listings Might not be even UK, we exported world wide Probably not Republica Populară Romînă Railway Pioneer Regt Finnish: Rannikkoprikaati (RPR) Regiment Piet Retief But most of the empire use the crown as do a lot of other countries Royal loyal volunteers rifle railway are all very common Just by towns Paddock Wood Padiham Padstow Paignton Painswick Paisley Partington Pateley Bridge Peacehaven Peebles Peel Pembroke Dock / Doc Penfro Pembroke / Penfro Penarth Pencoed Penicuik Penistone Penkridge Penmaenmawr Penrith Penryn Penzance Pershore Perth Peterborough Peterhead Peterlee Petersfield Petworth Pickering Pitlochry Pittenweem Plymouth Pocklington Polegate Pontardawe Pontarddulais Pontefract Ponteland Pontllanfraith Pontycymer Pontypool / Pont-y-pŵl Pontypridd Poole Portadown Port Glasgow Porth Porthcawl Porthmadog Portishead Portlethen Portrush Portsmouth Portsoy Portstewart Port Talbot Potters Bar Potton Poulton-le-Fylde Poynton Prescot Prestatyn Presteigne / Llanandras Preston Prestonpans Prestwick Princes Risborough Prudhoe Pudsey Pwllheli The search should be huge I can't find it in the imperial war museum or Kelly's badges two resources I trust Who is onlineUsers browsing this forum: crimsonlake, Debbie 67, EsoxGold, Etruscan_Toad, Nick68, sponge, STARAIDS, Stubble trouble, swansea jack, Thechillifarmer, TOURVEG and 18 guests |
