Australian silver hatbadge WW2
 

Max just showed me this hatbadge. It's in silver. Does anybody know the story behind it?

The story behind the badge: We believe, that the prisoners in PoW-Camps in Europe made these badges out of silver chocolate wrapping and sent them home to their beloved as a token to show that they were still alive.

Chris

back side

That's an awful lot of chocolate!

The crown on the badge is Queen Elizabeth II's, so the badge dates from after 1952 (Compare with your dad's WW2-era hat badge with King George VI crown). This badge has either been silver plated as a sweetheart memento, for a special ceremonial purpose (there are numerous chrome, nickel, or silver plated items for ceremonial use; bayonets, belt buckles hat badges, etc), or was used by the Armoured Corps (who have everything chromed, although they have only recently re-adopted the slouch hat in favour of the black beret).

King's Crown
 

This is definitely a King's crown (Edwardian) as opposed to a Queen's crown (Tudor).The pin appears to me as just a simple sweetheart pin that a lady would wear to show that her gentleman was in the service of his country.

another WW2 badge
 

... Max has another badge. This one should be a real WW2 one. Can anyone help?

... and the back of it

modern badge
 

... this one should be a modern one

@Tony: Do you have a clue, in which order the badges were produced? any links?

thanx
chris

Re: modern badge
 

I obviously don't have an effing one:confused: . My apologies, I think I need my eyes checked:idea: .

Chris, try here or here.