I've just got South Staff's and Ox's and Buck's cap badges and I was wondering if they had a cloth backing similar to the black felt with the 2 Commando cap badge.
South Staffs has a bit of hessian glued to the back. It does not extend beyond the edge of the badge, just fills in the holes.
Ox and Bucks has a Rifle Green Circle of Felt behind it.
BTW, which version of the Ox and Bucks badge did you get?
Same as the one I have...
South Staffs has a bit of hessian glued to the back. It does not extend beyond the edge of the badge, just fills in the holes.
Here's one i made earlier. Is this oaky?
Bang on
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
have you got any hessian knocking around gadge? i've got the cap badge, but don't seem to have any here.
Tons mate...
have as much as you like.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Tons mate...
have as much as you like.
cheers, remind me next time i pop over! Mind you, i'm still waiting for my beret to turn up.
Did you save your bandages from Wotan? If so thats acceptable hessian. 
Tons mate...
have as much as you like.
Gadge's bedsheets are made of it. 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
No they are made of far pervier stuff than hessian mate, becks woudnt have it any other way 
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
I can imagine you with a purple velour duvet cover, and rubberised canvas sheet - wipe clean?
So it was you looking through the gap in my curtains... peeping tom!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Tom's more into videos, so he can keep them for later...
I have urgent needs!
Did you save your bandages from Wotan? If so thats acceptable hessian.
D'oh, why didn't i remember those. Beret turned up today, so it's all done now!
WPG one?
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
WPG one?
Nah, SoF. I wanted it for the training day and didn't think the WPG one would arrive in time from the US.
I lost my Beret! Not seen it since Arnhem!
Oh well! So now I have the proper S.Staffs badge but not cap to put it on! hehe
The hessian backing was not universally used in WW2 by the South Staffs. Market Garden period photos are showing with and without, sometimes mixed in the same unit.
The famous picture of Corp. Jack Bird shows him without it.
Once sent to Norway at the very end of the war it does seem to be used by all.
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