• Help Identify some WW2 Buttons
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So today I was handed a belt covered in buttons from WW2, apparently owned by my great great uncle who served during the war (thats all anyone is able to tell me) [t]http://i.imgur.com/eNV66Vu.jpg[/t] In the interest of not cluttering the page with images the rest of the album is here : [url]http://imgur.com/a/valQp[/url] I know theres some of you out there that enjoy this sort of stuff and I figured if anyone out there wants to take a look and see if they can figure out what some of these are then I might as well share this with everyone, also since im only able to identify a few of them myself. Photos arent amazing quality so if theres something you -really- want a close up on let me know.
seeing a mix of middle eastern and what looks to be some italian, but some of these look pre world war 2 actually. if its world war 2, some of these have to be from the african campaign i see a lot of crowns and an australian engineer badge so im pretty much certain this is african campaign stuff
Aye with the amount of turkish buttons on there I assumed as much, though that and the aus badges are about as much as I know. (assuming some of them arent british since aus and brit stuff is fairly similar)
for the 5th image there's definitely an italian button with "polizia" on it but im not entirely certain why there'd be italian police in the african campaign unless late campaign with libya and such. for the turkish buttons, unlikely, but they could be middle eastern and egyptian colonial armies. i see foreign army buttons with italian markings aswell.
I wasn't aware any other countries used the moon and star?
yeah thats the confusing part. though i can definitely tell you that the italian stuff is there but the turkish badges are either pre world war 2 or a complete mystery to me. reason im thinking they're colonial is becuase britian had a lot of foreign legions around there so even though it's a bit unlikely, they could've used that. not entirely certain though so dont quote me on it, but i can say for sure that there's aussie engineer stuff and a lot of italian stuff which pretty much gaurantees its african campaign. [editline]5th July 2015[/editline] wait, wait, just googled it and i found something here [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_protectorate_of_Tunisia[/url] they've gotta be tunisian or algerian not entirely certain why i didnt think of that but now it makes sense the italian one's likely going to be libyan but the other ones are definitely french tunisian or algerian
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