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From: "George Pickering" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] position of N.C.O.s' stripes
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:29:50 -0000
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Anne,

Sounds like "Good Conduct" stripes as opposed to badges of rank.
Each stripe representing so many years good conduct. An expert will tell
you precisely.

The wearing of "Good Conduct" went out of use sometime in the late 1950's,
early sixties, I think.

Regards.

George
Rainham, Kent,
England.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Chambers" <>
To: <>
Sent: 06 December 2003 01:34
Subject: [WW1] position of N.C.O.s' stripes


> I was recently sent a photograph of NCOs and men of the 1/20 London
> Regiment, apparently taken some time before the batallion went to France
> in 1915. Three of the N.C.O.s (a corporal and two sergeants) have their
> stripes on the lower part of their sleeves, just above the cuff, instead
> of in the normal place on the upper arm above the elbow. In the
> three-stripers' case, their stripes are upside down in an inverted 'V'.
> Does this have any significance ?
>
> Anne
> South Australia
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