kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Share #1 Posted May 14, 2021 Headquarters Second Division AEF France Orders No. 29, authorized twenty five unit specific Shoulder Insignia on November 14, 1918. When the Division returned back to the CONUS in 1919, to Cam Travis, Texas, the Division was authorized the continuous use of Shoulder Insignia until the singular design was adopted as follows, "In 1925, the shield was made uniform in color and shape for all units, and is of black felt cloth..." (File QM 421 G-C 2D Div.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share #2 Posted May 14, 2021 The rare bird aka "pointy feathers". This example is very interesting in that the shield is made of velvet and intentional shaped the way it was made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share #3 Posted May 14, 2021 Another unique variation with feather bonnet looking like a hand of blue bananas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted May 14, 2021 This is a superb hand embroidered Injun with great attention to details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share #5 Posted May 14, 2021 A rare bullion variation of hand embroidery qualities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share #6 Posted May 14, 2021 Eventually this style of machine embroidered Indian heads was in standard use and provided through military channels i.e. PQMD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share #7 Posted May 14, 2021 A variation that presented itself circa. 1930's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share #8 Posted May 14, 2021 A book end to the HQ Shoulder Insignia the return of the "pointy feathers" circa. late 1930's. Note that up to this point that all the earlier example the application of the Indian head was applied only to the white shield field. Here in this example the star was affixed to the black shield prior to its branding of the Indian head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbmilitaria Posted May 14, 2021 Share #9 Posted May 14, 2021 Fantastic set of interwar patches. The velvet example is superb and the star looks like it was place on a devil's head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share #10 Posted May 23, 2021 Placing the shield type over and beside the this patch does give some good reference to what I'm talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share #11 Posted May 23, 2021 I might as well expanded on this subject matter and give more visual reference. Both 23rd Infantry Regiment, 1st and 2nd Battalion, patches clearly show their obvious circular shapes. Both are worn examples and maintain their circular circumference where as the Black oval doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share #12 Posted May 23, 2021 When the 2nd Division returned back to the CONUS the square shape was redesignated 1st Infantry Regiment R.A. The Indian head is hand embroidered example that came from the PQMD pipeline. The Yellow colored background represents 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share #13 Posted May 23, 2021 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion patch also with a hand embroidered Indian head. Not quite the "Red Man" as the 1st Infantry Regiment example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share #14 Posted May 23, 2021 23rd Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion patch also a product of the Philadelphia textile industry that incorporated heavy felt like those used in pennant applications. This is counter to the standardize materials use of "Melton Wool". Indian head is also hand embroidered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share #15 Posted May 23, 2021 12th Field Artillery, 1st Battalion patch that also comes from military channels. This one has a machine embroidered Injun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share #16 Posted May 23, 2021 Humm, somehow part of my paragraph disappeared above in post #10. I believe this patch was representative of HQ, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade in that the black background shape is more of an oval rather that a circle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share #17 Posted January 3, 2022 Added a 1st Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion patch to the mix. And this would be the first time I posted my 2nd Signal Company tunic that sports a PQMD hand embroidered Indian Head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share #18 Posted January 3, 2022 A nice early "pointy feather" example on uniform. Great combination of wounded and service stripes on this Sergeant coat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share #19 Posted January 11, 2022 Such a steal for this nice 2nd Signal Company coat with rare "pointy feathers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share #20 Posted January 11, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiaiokalewa Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share #21 Posted January 11, 2022 Such a great pre 1924 2nd Division, 2nd Engineer, 1st Battalion, officers coat with correct darken bronze Corps of Engineer buttons throughout. This Lt. probably got out of the service prior to uniform hardware transitioning to gilt. Either way totally correct for the stateside assignment between tail end of 1919-1925, and before unit specific patches were standardized to its singler design of black shield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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