Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Badges – Corps and Units in the British Army

Opening: $700
Unsold
Approximately 80 badges of corps and units in the British army that served in Palestine.
The collection includes, among others, pins and buttons of: • Auxiliary Territorial Service (A.T.S., women's auxiliary force). • Royal Engineers. • The Cheshire Regiment. • King's Regiment. • Royal Army Medical Corps. • Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). • Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Royal Scots Greys. • The King's African Rifles (a British regiment which was recruited in the British colonies in East Africa). • Other units in the British Army.
The collection also includes a pin of the British Red Cross Society, "Red Cross Worker" pin, a number of Australian Army badges, two military ranks of the British Army, and more.
Total of approx. 80 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
The Morton Leventhal Collection
The Morton Leventhal Collection