This may have been discussed but is it possible to have a lapel pin or other insignia created for GWF members that makes it easy for us to identify each other in the field? I figured that the group doesn't have a secret handshake or facial gesture (that I know of), but it would be nice to recognize fellow pals when some (most?) have never met face-to-face. Just asking...

Sean

See this recent thread: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...092;&st=225

Jim

YIKES! That one spun out of control, didn't it. Probably still too hot to handle, too.

Can't help with dates, but badges are on the way.....

Yay

Having bought two of the originals, can you put me down for two more of the new ones, please!

Bruce

(and i don't care what they look like....just so we can identify each other!)

Due to my Swine flu, i look like piglet. I dont need a badge

Fascinating.

I find that I have missed 10 pages of debate [otherwise known as the greater and lesser codswallop about GWF badges] with the inevitable hissy-fits and the equally inevitable closure, and now I gather the beast is still not dead.

Drive a steak through its hart and put garlick round the door, someone.

Maybe we could still get our own handshake?

I don't care what the bl**dy things look like.
I don't care that much how much they cost, within reason.
I don't want to have to wear Threadgold's Thoroughgrip Garterettes and lie down in mud on Redan Ridge should I bump into a Pal there. After all....how do you start that? Might we both look a bit like prats, fieldwalking in court dress and bowler hats?

I just want a couple of bl**dy badges!!!

Bruce

You could try a universally-recognised Victoria Bitter bottle cap. I have a few spare.

Oh well. Here's hoping I can get a refund when I return my hat

Grumpy.

and if VB tops will do, can supply multitudes of them, and Carlton and....

BTW, what was wrong with the other badge? Mine went from Oz, to Singapore, to France, Belgium, Gallipoli and back to Oz. Was picked up by other forumites, which led to great times, and, shhhh, a hangover or two, but, it still marched on.

Cheers
Kim

Sounds delicious - I am very partial to venison. Could I please reserve a portion ...

Can we please have a preview of what these here new badges look like.

Mods

I wouldn't if I were you - we all know where this conversation went before ! Make it a fait accompli.

Brian

I wish worms came in jars instead of cans—its easier to close up after it's been opened.

Sorry chaps, I'm not the one dealing with the badges, so I can't give sneak previews or suggest when they wil be available. I just know that things are moving.

Finger on the pulse, see.

Grumpy
You would have done better drinking the bottle tops and throwing away the VB. Worst slops in Oz.
David

David!!! Wash your mouth out!!!

Cheers
Kim

A recent cartoon shows Christopher Robin and Pooh discussing having Piglet put down!

Whats wrong with a wafer pasted inside your pocket watch? - well if it was good enough for General Hannay (see Mr Standfast) it ought to be good enough for us

have suggested this before, ust make one out of the back of a cornflakes packet, saves time and effort, no fuss of people voting 'volunteering not to volunteer' jobs done and no messing about...but then again some folks like it
matt (gave up some time ago)

Nothing to stop you doing that Matthew. I intend to do something similar myself with the transparent pencil case I bought at a closing down sale recently.

A metal forum lapel badge is curently being manufactured, and I would hope that an image of the real thing will be coming to an order form near you soon!

Brilliant news Kate - I can go GWF Pals searching in France during the summer!

Jim

For what it is worth, I visit Ypres area and/or Somme at least once a year. Being a nerd, I wear GWF badge and WFA badge in lapel.

I have to say that

1. never been approached by a fellow member

2. never seen a fellow member.

Is it me? Is it the garlic?

The only comment I have had about mine... 'is that the Bomber Command Association badge?'

Some of us are easily recognisable.

Steven, that may well provide the answer to another thread... 'Is it time to cull the membership?'

I was thinking of dyeing my hair international Yellow when I'm Arras and Vimy in July, but I think would attract more than just Pals. In the interim, I plan to wear a blue band (say 1.5-2" wide) on my jacket cuff.

I assume details of how to order etc will be posted when badges are available......

Will look nice with the forum polo shirt.......(I hope!)

What about those hand signs that the LA street gangs use? ........ heads back down into dugout (with gotten coat)......

Probably not.

My "version 3 logo" badge has just returned from Belgium/ France. My version 1 polo shirt stayed in Stockport guarding the home - successfully. I also did a "Blue Peter" job to manufacture a sticker for the car window (downloaded one of the posts that had Tim's design).

I didnt spot anyone else. Nor did anyone clap me on the back expressing joy at encountering a fellow Forum member. Or whatever.

John,

Other Forum members were probably hiding behind the cemetery wall, waiting for you to leave before emerging, congratulating themselves on a very lucky escape.

I'm sure you're right, Ken.

It's obvious when you have it explained. There must be a huge market amongst Forum members for a badge that they then don't wear, just in case they are ID'd be a member they wouldnt want to meet. Bit like the "ignore" facility. Simples.

John

(PS: thanks for the recc. for Chavasse Farm. Spotted your entry in the visitors book.)

Spot on, John.

In reality, we all want everyone else to wear the badge, so that we know who to avoid.

And I must stop signing visitor's books in my own name!

If I had been wearing a badge would you have ignored me when we bumped into each other in some obscure Somme cemetery last summer?

I would if you'd been wearing your Forest shirt.

And imagine meeting someone with a P*sh shirt

Stick to a GWF badge, maybe.

Erm... I take your point, Andrew. By the time I'd got close enough to stare at your lapel, chest or other location you'd pinned it, it would have been too late.

No privacy anywhere these days, eh?

The GWF badge: can it be done? From reading this thread subject over the last few years, we should re-name the thread The Triumph of Hope Over Experience. (Insert cheeky smiley-face thingy!! Observation offered in all good fun)

'Twas a bizarre moment! Nice though.

Connor - in the words of President BO, 'Yes we can".

Well, it worked for Kooky and I , plus accents, at Tyne Cot, and Sabine and us at the Menin Gate!
BTW Ours are still the most travelled, as in miles.
Cheers
Kim

Being as it's now 5 June; any news regarding said badges? Still being pressed and enamelled by child labour in deepest China perhaps? En route by banana boat? Wouldn't mind one for the summer of 2009; but will settle for the summer of 2010 when the boat finally comes in.

Kate may be able to give a fuller account, but yes they are on the way. There was a 'technical' hitch.

Thought it was gnomes in that unexplored gallery at Vampire

Oh ye of little faith!

Coming to a cheque book near you soon.

Well done all involved, great design and well presented,

I'll have the bottom one for £1.50

Kevin

Kevin,

Thank you for your custom.

Please send a cheque to Andrew Hesketh for £6.50 including £5 post and packing and it's yours.

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Kate, I have just noticed that they are photographed on the "MODS WOODEN SPOON" lol. How long before we will be wearing them,

Kevin

It looks the DB's!

Roger