During WW2, many different nationalities came to the UK to enlist in the Army, Navy or Air Force. Some like Canada, Australia, New Zealand were part of the Commonwealth and answered the call to fight for the ‘Mother country’. Others such as from Argentina or Brazil cameĀ to fight or were living in the UK at the time. The badges below are from the RAF and were worn on the battledress to show where these voluteers had come from.
Argentina
Brazil
Canada
Jamaica

Wartime in the Vale 2010, Bedford M | 
Eastern Front Collection 86 | 
Normandy 1944 Collection 703 | 
Eastern Front Collection 439 |

Berlin May/June 1945 87 | 
Eastern Front Collection 1552 | 
Leyland Martian 10 ton Artillery Tr | 
Wolverhampton Bantock House 1940\ |

Bedford MWD 15cwt GS (VVF 657 S) | 
Eastern Front Collection 469 | 
Hotchkiss M201 Jeep (265-1634) | 
Bedford QLR 3Ton Wireless (65 YX 39 |

Leyland Martian 10Ton Artillery Tra | 
Eastern Front Collection 361 | 
Eastern Front Collection 1454 | 
AEC Mandator 10Ton 4x2 \'Blue |

FV432 APC (04 EA 82) | 
Eastern Front Collection 39 | 
Land Rover S3 Lightweight (16 FM 81 | 
Austin K9 1Ton GS (Q 386 GBG) |