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Ian_Kel

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I tried to pick up this badge at auction recently but my bids were blown away, I didn't realise they were so well collected.

A pocket badge of the 1st Polish Rifle Brigade, raised in my home town of Biggar, Lanarkshire, 1940, the badge made by Kirkwood & Sons, Edinburgh.

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A search on the internet leads you to some nice period photographs of the Polish troops taken when stationed in and around Biggar, a few here which shows a parade down the (not much changed) High Street, a podium set up opposite John Lambie's ironmonger shop (it's now a charity shop) at which General Wladyslaw Sikorski took the salute.

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