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Badge

Accession Number NWHRM : 3594

Description

First World War Imperial Service badge was worn on the right breast to signify a volunteer from a territorial unit who volunteered for overseas service.

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Officers and men of the peacetime territorial army could offer to serve outside the United Kingdom in a time of national emergency. Under the conditions of Imperial Service a territorial could undertake to serve abroad, but only with his own unit, or with part of his own unit. He could not be drafted as an individual to any other unit except at his own request.

Measurements 10 mm
Department Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum

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