Hi there again and welcome to this week’s newsletter. We all get a little nostalgic at this time of year and so we thought we should be the same and remind you of some of the other areas of Miliblog that are often overlooked. This week we thought we would look at some of the cloth badges in the collection. We have a number of nations on display but to start with we have a festive polar bear of the British 49th Infantry Division. The first pattern had the polar bear with his head down. After the division served in Norway in 1940 and was evacuated, it was decided that the head down looked deafest and a beaten unit, so the badge was redesigned to show a more optimistic outlook.