United Kingdom. A Long Range Desert Group Cap Badge, Private Made Auction Archive 5 mm x 138

5 mm x 138

4th Infantry Battalion

after 1939 the rank of Kreisleiter began to be phased out

” the bottom edge is stamped with“SILBER 990 VERL BALL

United Kingdom. A Long Range Desert Group Cap Badge, Private Made Auction Archive 5 mm x 138In silvered metal, illustrating a scorpion above the letters "LRDG", within a wide bordered circle, measuring 32. 8 mm in diameter, both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Originally called the Long Range Patrol (LRP), the unit was founded in Egypt in June 1940 by Major Ralph A. Bagnold, acting under