A Post First War Mine Clearance Service Cuff Badge 1918-1920 Auction East Sussex on March 5

East Sussex on March 5

203 mm x 256 mm

Nice quality example

In late 1934

The reverse is marked “A

A Post First War Mine Clearance Service Cuff Badge 1918-1920 Auction East Sussex on March 5Great Britain; Bronze gilt, unmarked, 56. 5 mm (w) x 80. 7 mm (h), both lugs intact, scattered gilt wear, near extremely fine. Footnote: At the end of the First World War, the Admiralty appointed an International Mine Clearance Committee on which 26 countries were represented. The Supreme War Council allotted each Power an area to clear, the largest falling to Great Britain. Some 40,000 square miles of sea needed clearing. In February 1919, the Royal