United Kingdom. A Long Range Desert Group Cap Badge, Private Made Auction Archive ” the bottom edge is

” the bottom edge is stamped with“SILBER 990 VERL BALL

(1859 CORPL: D

measuring 202 mm (w) x 265 mm (h))

He was married Christmas Eve 1904 and only 4 months later would leave England for 5 years service in Gibraltar with the 15th Company R

along with light contact and tarnishing

United Kingdom. A Long Range Desert Group Cap Badge, Private Made Auction Archive ” the bottom edge isIn silvered metal, illustrating a scorpion above the letters "LRDG", within a wide bordered circle, measuring 32. 8 mm in diameter, both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Originally called the Long Range Patrol (LRP), the unit was founded in Egypt in June 1940 by Major Ralph A. Bagnold, acting under