By: Arabella-Cox - 21st September 2011 at 21:14
Apparently not….but why not try the RAF Badminton Assn:
By: LW206 - 21st September 2011 at 21:07
So you don’t know then!
Thanks anyway guys.
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st September 2011 at 19:33
RAF Armourers Badminton Club?
Blimey!
You could be right.
I just hadn’t seen the shuttlecock!!
By: Bob - 21st September 2011 at 18:40
RAF Armourers Badminton Club?
By: Arclite03 - 21st September 2011 at 17:26
I think it looks cheap and tacky. 🙂
I also think it’s not old old maybe 1960’s ??
Arc
By: LW206 - 21st September 2011 at 13:54
Its a badge, 52mm high with a pin and hook back.
Thanks
Richard
By: Atcham Tower - 21st September 2011 at 13:47
It commemorates the little known experiments at West Freugh around 1944 in equipping a Skua with a scaled-down Tallboy. Haven’t heard of this? No, neither have I …
By: Soggy - 21st September 2011 at 13:34
What size is it please – brooch or plaque?
By: adrian_gray - 21st September 2011 at 13:13
I’m with Andy – I think the odds are that this was a “Sweetheart brooch”, rather than anything official. It looks very bright, though – possibly made a lot more recently than the aircraft suggests? Or just well looked after?
It’s rather fun, though, isn’t it?
Adrian
By: SADSACK - 21st September 2011 at 13:07
re;
has it been cast by a POW?
By: Soggy - 21st September 2011 at 12:59
The fairing under the tail is like that of the Skua/Roc, which didn’t see service other than as a target tug in the RAF?
Wiki seems to think that 801 Sqn was RAF and equipped with Skuas just before it was transferred to the Admirality in 1939:
By: Arabella-Cox - 21st September 2011 at 12:30
Looks more like an unofficial badge or brooch. In fact…thats where my money is!
Fascinating, though.
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