i have a small badge and it says it is a returned soldiers badge and it has a number on the back of it
just woundering would this number be the badge number or the soldiers number it wos given to
badge number .229326 .stokes & sons.melbourne
best krieg

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My guess would be that the number is the "service number " of the individual that the badge was given to. The company name may be either the firm that made the bagde, or an employer of the man who it was issued to, post war.

My Dad was a First World War veteran of the Canadian Army, and during WW2, he wore a "Veterans' Service " lapel badge on his civillian clothes, to show that he had all ready "done his bit " 20 years before hand.

At the end of WW2 Canada issued a similar "overseas service " badge to returning servicemen and women, so show they had been "serving Canada ". They also got a wall hanger "certificate of service " signed by the Prime Minister, and the King.

Jim Bunting. Toronto. Ontario. Canada.

Have a look here mate.
Australian War Service Badges WW2

and here for a WW1 example.

AWM Collection Record: REL30389 - Returned from Active Service Badge : Corporal F McArthur, 13 Infantry Battalion, AIF

I'm not 100% sure but the number wouldn't be his service number but the number of the badge awarded to him.
His details would be recorded against that number.
I'm open to correction.

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hi .ww. no need for correction you hit the nail right on the head it is a ww1
returned soldiers badge
it is the same as the second site you have put up there i do thankyou very much for this great info
now i will try and find out who it's wos .. i did the google thing but came up empty
once again thanks mate .. best mark

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Kreig, If that is a WW1 badge you have and want to find more it might be worth asking on the Great War Forum.
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There are people on there you know far more than I.


Jim,
You say your dad was in WW1 , what unit was he in?
I had a great interest in the Canadians in WW1 a few years back. I've "done" a few of their battlefields over the years.

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thanks again there.ww. will give it a go and see how things go if i find out
who owned this badge i will i will put the soldiers detailes up hers if that is aloud .. best krieg

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Wesex:

He joined the 95th Battalion CEF in Toronto, in Oct 1915, ( lied about his age ) and wound up in the 4th Canadian Machine Gun Battalion , in France, as a Vickers gun crew captain. Survived the war, although wounded 3 times, and on two different occassions, he was the only one out of his crew to not be killed.

If you do a Google on " John Carl Bunting " you will find a tribute website, that I contributed to, put up by the Dominion Institute, here in Canada, with some photos and a short bio, that I wrote about him. He lived to the age of 81, dying in 1983, here in Toronto.

Jim Bunting.