United Kingdom. A Long Range Desert Group Cap Badge, Private Made Auction A Second War Memorial Cross

A Second War Memorial Cross to the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps - George VI (A

on a heavy black wool base

The fittings are silvered bronze

near mint and very rare

A group of three day badges

United Kingdom. A Long Range Desert Group Cap Badge, Private Made Auction A Second War Memorial CrossIn 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