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3 1/2" x 3 1/4" black wool rectancle with a multi toned gold bullion Griffith, theater made Korea or Japan.

Garth

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vostoktrading

Maybe it's supposed to be the Lion of Saint Mark. Venice, Italy?

Looks like Japanese or Chinese characters on the newsprint on the back.

Jon.

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I checked my British Formation Sign references, but no luck....

 

-Ski

while you were going through your British Formation Sign did you notice that the 43rd (Wessex) INF.DIV is very similar to that patch Garth Thomsom is showing

Henrik

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Korean War UN unit???

Great looking patch

 

Did Ethiopia supply troops to the Korean War U.N., ? if so this patch resembles an Ethiopian winged lion used on many of their insignia.

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while you were going through your British Formation Sign did you notice that the 43rd (Wessex) INF.DIV is very similar to that patch Garth Thomsom is showing

Henrik

I thought of that but I can't find any reference to th 43rd Wessex serving in Asia, Korea or occupied Japan.

Garth

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Did Ethiopia supply troops to the Korean War U.N., ? if so this patch resembles an Ethiopian winged lion used on many of their insignia.

The Ethiopians did have troops fighting in Korea but their patch incorporated the symbolic Lion of Judea. Here is an example.

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I thought of that but I can't find any reference to th 43rd Wessex serving in Asia, Korea or occupied Japan.

Garth

 

 

Yeah, there is no way it is the 43rd Wessex.

 

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