A good 'veteran bring-back' example of a 

World War Two British

Combined Operations

Arm Patch & Shoulder Title

circa 1940-45

Created in 1940, after The Battle of Britain,

Combined Operations

was a special department of the British War Office

tasked with organising ops to harass

German forces over on the continent through the use of

Commando units composed of army & naval personnel,

supported by aircraft of the RAF.

But it wasn't until 1942 that the Head of Combined Ops

Lord Louis Mountbatten

issued a commission for a separate badge to 

represent this new combined service.

The winning design was  submitted by

Lt D A Grant RNVR of HMS Tormentor,

( a landing craft training base at Warsash on the River Hamble here in the south of England

and home for many of the raiding parties launched across the Channel),

which featured a combined fouled anchor (Navy) Tommy-gun (Army)

 

and outstretched eagle (RAF)

Found in a small tin of myriad German & British insignia brought back

from Normandy at the end of WW-II by a British infantryman,

this is an  impressive screen-printed

Combined Ops patch (unpicked from a battle blouse)

in red-on-blue background and measuring approx 3.25" across,

together with a heavily embroidered red-on-blue background

Commando shoulder title, (also unpicked  from a blouse),

measuring approx  4" across .

A striking pair of original British Combined Ops insignia!

Please note:

+++ This sale is for the 2 x Combined Operations items of insignia only! +++

Thanks for looking..!