I'm hoping someone with more military knowledge than I have can identify a soldier's shoulder insignia for me. A picture of him can be seen at the following location: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/families/plester-1.htm He was a Banbury lad. John Plester. Researching: PLESTER, JOINES, TAPLIN, and TEW. _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to add other email accounts to Hotmail in 3 easy steps. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/
As Nivard said and sure looks like the word Airborne as per these pics http://www.6th-airborne.org/tabs.html Ron Lankshear -Sydney NSW (from London-Shepherds Bush/Chiswick) try my links http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/ John Plester wrote: > I'm hoping someone with more military knowledge than I have can identify a soldier's shoulder insignia for me. A picture of him can be seen at the following location: > > > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/families/plester-1.htm
My militaria son says it is 1st Air Landing Brigade, South Staffordshire Regt. but the shoulder flash would just say South Stafford. Wings would have been worn on the right shoulder for any paratrooper. Barbara Adair. On 4-Sep-09, at 2:59 AM, John Plester wrote: > > I'm hoping someone with more military knowledge than I have can > identify a soldier's shoulder insignia for me. A picture of him can > be seen at the following location: > > > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/families/plester-1.htm > > > > > > He was a Banbury lad. > > > > John Plester. > > Researching: PLESTER, JOINES, TAPLIN, and TEW. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Learn how to add other email accounts to Hotmail in 3 easy steps. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ > Some useful websites: > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-BANBURY-AREA-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message