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BADGE
Unique ID: NLM-415D5D
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy badge. Pressed metal badge of the Tank Corps, the first designation of Britain's armoured mechanised formations. The badge depicts a male Mark 1 tank framed by a laurel wreath, with Crown Imperial above and the legend: TANK / CORPS in a scroll above and below the tank. The badge is made of pressed metal and all relief detail appears in negative form on the back. A scar below the crown on the back probably marks the loss of a metal strip to attach the badge to a cap. Lightly crumpled. Peter Hart kindly comments as follows: 'Tank Corps. The first Tank Corps badge. Superseded in 1922', citing Kipling and King vol 1 no.1156.
Suggested date: Modern, 1917-1922.
Height: 45.5mm, Width: 39.6mm, Thickness: 0.5mm, Weight: 7.40gm
Class:
Uniform
Inscription:
TANK / CORPS
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: MODERN
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Exactly AD 1917
Date to: Exactly AD 1922
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 45.5 mm
Width: 39.6 mm
Thickness: 0.5 mm
Weight: 7.4 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 28th April 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM36237
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Luddington
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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