A Lapel Badge of the Home Guard Special Auxiliary Unit
A Lapel Badge of the Home Guard Special Auxiliary Unit

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A Lapel Badge of the Home Guard Special Auxiliary Unit
A small shield-shaped badge in red and blue enamel on white metal, bearing a KC above numerals 1/203/3
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Lot Essay

Badges of this type were worn by Old Comrades of World War 2 Home Guard Auxiliary units, whose role in the event of a German invasion would have been to form the nucleus of a British Resistance.