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  |date        =Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:03 pm
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+ |post        ={{clear}}===Collar badges converted into broaches===
- |post        =Collar badges converted into broaches with a pin fitting and coated with a gold wash. The photo clearly shows the different battle honours on the Boer War period type (left with 11 honours) and a WW1 period type (13 honours). Item belonged to: CSM Thorpe, George Frederick no. 6080, entitled to QSA, KSA, WW1 trio, silver wound badge, and LSGC.
+Collar badges that have been converted into brooches with a pin fitting and coated with a gold wash. The photo clearly shows the different battle honours on the Boer War period type (left with 11 honours) and a WW1 period type (13 honours). Item belonged to: CSM Thorpe, George Frederick no. 6080, entitled to QSA, KSA, WW1 trio, silver wound badge, and LSGC.
 Born 1880 Chadcote, Warwickshire. Enlisted 1899. Served in 1st Border in South Africa during Boer War. A CSM at Wellington Barracks, India in 1910 (where he is mentioned in "Glory is no Compensation). In 1911 census he was at 1st Border HQ, Sale Barracks, Rangoon, Burma. Also in 1911 at Rangoon aged 31, he married a woman by the surname of "Powell", (no Christian name or indication if she was a spinster or a widow). CSM with B Coy 1st Border at Gallipoli. Wounded June 1915. Received LSGC April 1918. Discharged October 1920. A member of the regimental association.<br>
 Paul