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Auction 6 9 Oct 2018
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Transjordan Frontier Force mid-sized metal hat badge, circa. 1930's-40's; maker-marked "W Dowler & Sons" [Birmingham]; size: 21.5 x 33mm; weight: 3.8g. With 2-prong reverse. Formed 1926 by the Mandate as territorial battalion of British Army, with 800 soldiers reaching up to 3000; the TJFF included variously between 19 to 150 Jews (1942 peak); it replaced the mounted police & Palestine Gendermerie.