Pre 1940 Barbados Volunteers cap badge by Gaunt. London australian High quality silver and blue

High quality silver and blue enamel sweetheart with brooch back fixing

Mint condition paste backed cloth shoulder title

only a base white metal but high quality

suggest 1970s–1990s

Victoria was an artist and all his skill was use to illustrate the very rare 24 page booklet called Abroad with the Fifth that comes with this group along with a letter from the Australian War Memorial accepting one of paintings

Pre 1940 Barbados Volunteers cap badge by Gaunt. London australian High quality silver and blueThe badge depicts Britannia riding a seahorse, an iconic device taken directly from the Barbados colonial coat of arms, set within a six pointed starburst. Beneath is a scroll with the title BARBADOS VOLUNTEERS. This pattern is well recorded as the standard cap badge of the Barbados Volunteers before the force was reorganised in 1939 into the Barbados Volunteer Force (BVF) under the new Defence Act. The Volunteers functioned similarly to other British