NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 21 DECEMBER 2009

Hi and welcome to Miliblog in this Christmas week !

We’re all stuffing our faces this week with turkey, sprouts and new potatoes and hoping that we have all been good boys and girls and that Santa Claus will bring us some nice presents. It’s the time of year to think about friends and family overseas, living or working far away from home. It started me thinking of many in the forces away from their loved ones on overseas postings, and with a nice glass of red wine and a mince pie, thinking further back to those from other countries that came together as the Allies in World War 2.  

We’ve featured many vehicles of many nations this year on Miliblog but really have so far included military badges of just the UK and the USA. So following that theme, we’ve added a small number of badges to Miliblog this week. We have Belgian, Canadian and Polish badges as well as others from South America. Many people came to the UK and enlisted in the RAF in WW2 and each were given their own badge to illustrate which country they came from. As usual I’ve shown a few samples below.

So back to the presents and hope Santa has bought us a nice book on old Bedford army lorries !

Cheerio and a very Happy Christmas to you all from Miliblog !

Simon 

Polish 2 Corps (WW2)

Canadian 2 AGRA (Army Group Royal Artillery)

Belgian 1 Infantry Division

RAF Argentina Patch

RAF Brazil Patch

RAF Canada Patch

RAF Jamaica Patch