Gilt Button - Bearing the Ordnance Arms. c1830 - 1855
(Words " SUA TELA TONANTI" in Garter)
(This is a drawing or a recently descovered button, believed to be the early Board of Ordnance design)
Ordnance Insignia of the British Army
Early Patterns of Cap, Collar, Button & Shoulder Titles
All items here have been described in the relivent sections. But have been grouped here for ease of referance.
Gilt Button - Bearing the Ordnance Arms.
c1830 - 1855
(Words " SUA TELA TONANTI" in Garter)
(This is a drawing or a recently descovered button, believed to
be the early Board of Ordnance design)
Not illustrated
Gilt Button - Military Store Department - 1860 -
1870
(Words " MILITARY STORE STAFF" in Garter)
Gilt Button (HR 508) - Control Department 1870 -
1875
(Words "CONTROL DEPARTMENT" in Garter)
Ordnance Stores Department (OSD) 1875 - 1896
Gilt QVC worn by the Ordnance Stores Department (OSD)
1875 - 1896
Red velvet backing & backplate, with two ¾” blades to
rear.
The use of this badge is not clear, but it more than likely a Forage Cap Device.
and
Gilt OD Forage Cap Device for the OSD with blade
fittings
(OD meaning 'Ordnance Department')
It is possible that
these two devices were worn together.
Gilt Button (HR 520) - Ordnance Stores Department
(Single word " ORDNANCE" in Garter)
Ordnance
Store Corps (OSC) - 1881 - 1896
Middle -
Gliding-Metal Forage Cap Device with blade fittings
Left & Right - Pair of Gliding-Metal QVC Collar
Badges
Bottom Left - (HR 521) Gliding-Metal QVC General Service
Button
Bottom Right - ( WL 440) Gliding-Metal Shoulder
Title with lug fittings
The plain crown was worn as a
collar badge my many regiments & corps before c1881
and is beleaved to have been worn by the OSC till 1896, and the
formation of the Army Ordnance Corps.
At this time the 'Ordnance Shield' was adopted.
Corps of
Armourer-Sergents
Prior to Armament Artificers being
amalgamated into the Army Ordnance Corps in 1896, they were
titled the Corps of Armourer-Sergents, and wore the OSC Uniform
with OA metal shoulder titles. Which was held by some to stand
for 'Orse Artullery' They were joined by the Ordnance Artificers,
Royal Artillery and Inspectors of Ordnance Machinery (The
inspectors being officers joined the Army Ordnance Department) to
form the Armourer and Armament Section of the Army Ordnance Corps
(AOC) in 1896.
Gliding-Metal 'OA' Shoulder Title
of the Corps of Armourer-Sergents
(Worn from about c1881 to 1896)
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