Help me identify this badge/medal

[anonymous-user]

I have no idea what it is so please help!

[Rawwr]

Something to do with bareback cock?

[condor]

I was going to suggest B...... Bantam breeders

[C&C]

After a bit of Googling, looks like it's a badge relating to a unit of shorter than average soldiers from the 1st World War: Bigland's Birkenhead Bantams.

The insignia on the bottom left of the plaque on This DM Article looks pretty similar.

More info Here.

[anonymous-user]

[quote=C&C]After a bit of Googling, looks like it's a badge relating to a unit of shorter than average soldiers from the 1st World War: Bigland's Birkenhead Bantams.

The insignia on the bottom left of the plaque on This DM Article looks pretty similar.

More info Here.


[/quote]


That's great thank you. Very interesting!

[Eric Mc]

It was the first ID badge issued for BBC staff - until they realised they'd cocked up.

[mybrainhurts]

It's the badge of the Stuttering Tourette's Society.

They had a competition for the design and the bloke who shouted..

B..B..B....COCK

Won it.

All the others were disqualified.

[Leptons]

Rawwr said:

Something to do with bareback cock?

[Planet Claire]

My OH has just informed me of this thread. It's not a badge I recognised, being an early one, but my maternal great-grandfather was in the Cheshire Regiment, 15th Battalion. If your badge comes from a family member and you are interested to learn more about the Bantams then I can recommend this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Cheshire-Bantams-Batta...

I've spend a few hours at Kew reading the war diaries. I appreciate it's not easy to read unless you zoom in but here's the entry for Christmas Day, 1916.