Army Veterinary Corps/Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Tank Corps/Royal Tank Regiment, 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment Insignia. The former includes a selection of officers and o/r caps and collars including two officer’s odd silver plated collars to the Territorial Section; the RAVC section includes a pair of officer’s collars in bronze and a very fine QEC officer’s cap in gilt and silver plate; the Tank section includes a first pattern o/r cap badge and later KC issues, officers’ sundry collars osd gilt and silver both KC, and a gilt and silver pair QEC, an officer’s silver plated pair of QEC collars to the North Somerset Yeomanry with tank centres, two brass s/titles ‘Tanks’; together with a selection of caps and collars to the RAC first and second patterns; a varied selection of buttons to all the units described. A good quality unissued brass glengarry badge to the 22nd (KK 455), four Mess Waiter’s large size gilt buttons to the 22nd, six varied buttons to the 22nd including three shell jacket examples, standard first and second pattern o/r caps with matching collars, three pairs osd collars (second pattern); a collection of buttons to the Royal Cheshire Militia, two officer’s large and one small plated buttons to the Cheshire Rifle Volunteers, good overall condition (parcel) £150-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Militaria Formed by The Late R.E. Handley.

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