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Originally posted by PASig:
They are definitely not Army patches.

Maybe some sort of Naval rating if they are military at all?

I've never seen anything like that in the Navy.

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Originally posted by Eponym:
I followed SgtGold's idea. TinEye found 0 results after searching over 34.0 billion images.

Well then, I'm all out of useful ideas. I would have thought it would have found something.

Wondering out loud.... Is it a historical patch from one of the other Military Academies?? Ie not West Point, Anapolis, or Air Force.

I can say it is not from The Citadel. But what about VMI, GMC, ect??

Andrew

Try salvation army, red cross, or possible less reputible things like kkk

Perhaps the patch is from a foreign land

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Originally posted by El Cid 92:
Wondering out loud.... Is it a historical patch from one of the other Military Academies??

That got me to thinking about the insignia worn by West Point cadets on fatigues/BDUs/whatever they’re called now when serving with active Army units during summer training, etc. They consist(ed) of a number of thin bars linked together in a parallel array, and vaguely resembled the above patches. The significant differences, though, were that there was no cross bar and especially not one that extended beyond the parallel bars. Also, if the above were uniform patches they were evidently worn on some sort of utility uniform, and I don’t know of any in the distant past that were the tan color of the background.

Since Academies were mentioned, could it possibly be a football patch for a sweater or lettermans jacket? (possibly just for college and not military related)

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Originally posted by BigJnSA:
could it possibly be a football patch for a sweater or lettermans jacket?

You're just missing the two corresponding "D" patches.

I believe that is a WW1 Home Guard sleeve patch from Cincinnati Ohio. It's from the summer uniform. If you do a search under Cincinnati Home Guard during WW1 you will see several examples of it being worn. It was worn on the low sleeve because the shoulder patch was slightly different. I also believe it had something to do with the railroad but I can't confirm that. I sent a copy of a photo to your email you have posted on your profile.

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Originally posted by oldfireguy:
I believe that is a WW1 Home Guard sleeve patch from Cincinnati Ohio. It's from the summer uniform. If you do a search under Cincinnati Home Guard during WW1 you will see several examples of it being worn. It was worn on the low sleeve because the shoulder patch was slightly different. I also believe it had something to do with the railroad but I can't confirm that. I sent a copy of a photo to your email you have posted on your profile.

We may have a winner here. Scroll down to the bottom of this thread.

http://www.usmilitariaforum.co...ti-home-guard-medal/

Same photo I just sent him from the Ohio history page. It's pretty typical of WW1 construction but it isn't a regular Army patch. State units kind of did their own thing and even when activated and pulled into regular Army units wore their sleeve patches. It's very similar to railroad patches I've seen on uniforms.

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Originally posted by oldfireguy:
I believe that is a WW1 Home Guard sleeve patch from Cincinnati Ohio. It's from the summer uniform. If you do a search under Cincinnati Home Guard during WW1 you will see several examples of it being worn. It was worn on the low sleeve because the shoulder patch was slightly different. I also believe it had something to do with the railroad but I can't confirm that. I sent a copy of a photo to your email you have posted on your profile.

AWESOME! Thank you. I've said it before, you simply cannot stump this forum or it's members!

Here's the photo and caption:


Cincinnati Home Guard photo - note the unique rank insignia on their sleeves.

Sigforum wins again !

And word back from the friend who found these:

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this makes perfect sense since I have discovered many items from the Cincinnati home guard in this estate lot.

I resisted the urge to reply that that would have been good information to have up front!

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Originally posted by SgtGold:

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Originally posted by oldfireguy:
I believe that is a WW1 Home Guard sleeve patch from Cincinnati Ohio. It's from the summer uniform. If you do a search under Cincinnati Home Guard during WW1 you will see several examples of it being worn. It was worn on the low sleeve because the shoulder patch was slightly different. I also believe it had something to do with the railroad but I can't confirm that. I sent a copy of a photo to your email you have posted on your profile.

We may have a winner here. Scroll down to the bottom of this thread.

http://www.usmilitariaforum.co...ti-home-guard-medal/

Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Impressive detective work....

It's a WWI Home Guard sleeve insignia from Ohio, duh.

Wait, I see someone beat me to it!

Just kidding, talk about obscure, I am continually impressed by Sigforum as well.

As impressive as it is commonplace around here.

Well done.