New Zealand WW1 Rifle Brigade Reinforcements hat badge.
$60.00
A brass King's (Tudor) crown hat/cap badge for the New Zealand Rifle Brigade Reinforcements. New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF).
1914 to 1919. World War One (WW1, WWI).
Two-piece badge with separate center attached to a New Zealand pattern Expeditionary Forces badge.
Good condition with hex lugs intact. Ref: DDD39.
A brass King's (Tudor) crown hat/cap badge for the New Zealand Rifle Brigade Reinforcements. New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF).
1914 to 1919. World War One (WW1, WWI).
Two-piece badge with separate center attached to a New Zealand pattern Expeditionary Forces badge.
Good condition with hex lugs intact. Ref: DDD39.
A brass King's (Tudor) crown hat/cap badge for the New Zealand Rifle Brigade Reinforcements. New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF).
1914 to 1919. World War One (WW1, WWI).
Two-piece badge with separate center attached to a New Zealand pattern Expeditionary Forces badge.
Good condition with hex lugs intact. Ref: DDD39.
The badge depicts the crest of the Earl of Liverpool - a lion rampant holding a Man of War's church pennant on a chapeau mounted on a King's crown New Zealand pattern Expeditionary Force cap badge.
As well as the numbered, and lettered for each draft, badges, the New Zealand Rifle Brigade wore their own Cap badge and Collars while training in New Zealand, in camp and also wore generic cap badge and collars as well. It was down to taste or preference as to which one was worn.
There are many variations.
(Ref: Badges and Insignia of the New Zealand Army, by Geoffrey P. Oldham.)
