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ZAR and OVS Badges and Insignia 2 days 8 hours ago #98779

Neville_C
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Correction to an earlier post.

MC Heunis has alerted me to the fact that this buckle was worn by the Pretoria Volunteer Corps and not the ZARPs.

Photograph of a member of the PVC wearing this type of buckle (courtesy of Museum Africa, Johannesburg).
Bizarrely, the helmet plate is inverted. One wonders how such an error could have occurred, especially just before a photo shoot ....

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ZAR and OVS Badges and Insignia 1 day 8 hours ago #98803

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Some more ZAR insignia.

Owen 2004. This is a white metal Transvaal Artillery Badge (pre-1901) already shown by QSAMIKE in an earlier post. This example was worn by bitter-einder VC Alex Boshoff, whose ABO medal is displayed next to it. Boshoff was a.o. with General Smuts in the Cape.

Owen 2006. As shown in an earlier post by Neville, this is the brass variant Transvaal Artillery Badge (Pre-1901). Looks it was stamped on the same dies as Owen 2004 featured above .

Owen 2017. There are five white metal badge variations listed in Owen of this model worn between 1874 and 1901. This particular badge, worn by the ZAR State Artillery, is fitted with a screw back.