Strange patch

Nack · 07-06-2004, 02:11 PM

Can anyone identify this patch? And why does it have dates on it? Thanks.

HuliganRS · 07-06-2004, 02:13 PM

Looks like a really fancy dembel patch.

Rusty.

sovvisor · 07-06-2004, 02:34 PM

I think that the patch is a special fixed up regular patch for someone who is leaving his military service. The years is his service time
Best

vikingraider1 · 07-06-2004, 07:45 PM

The above patch is from a DEMBEL uniform belonging to a conscript from a signals unit.

I have a similar one on an infantry uniform which also has the velvet fabric used on the above patch. This one is from an infantry conscript based in Lenningrad from 189 - 1991. The velvet fabric seems to have been quite common in Soviet military circles, I have three photo albums from Soviet Army and Naval conscripts which is covered in this fabric.

07-06-2004, 02:13 PM	#2
HuliganRS Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Illinois - U.S.A. Age: 46 Posts: 1,023	Looks like a really fancy dembel patch. Rusty. __________________ "Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Member #193

07-06-2004, 02:34 PM	#3
sovvisor Bearer of the Red Star Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Uppsala Swden Age: 49 Posts: 229	a guess I think that the patch is a special fixed up regular patch for someone who is leaving his military service. The years is his service time Best __________________ sovvisor

07-06-2004, 07:45 PM	#4
vikingraider1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: London, Home of West Ham United Age: 54 Posts: 328	The above patch is from a DEMBEL uniform belonging to a conscript from a signals unit. I have a similar one on an infantry uniform which also has the velvet fabric used on the above patch. This one is from an infantry conscript based in Lenningrad from 189 - 1991. The velvet fabric seems to have been quite common in Soviet military circles, I have three photo albums from Soviet Army and Naval conscripts which is covered in this fabric. __________________ "We can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead... and, in the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come, than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." King George V, Flanders, 1922 Last edited by CtahhR; 09-14-2013 at 07:27 AM.

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