Muncher 1953
Senior Member
last month I won this E.L. 24 at auction. one of the auction house principals posted some questions here on the forum, including the meaning of this particular mark but in an old thread & received no responses. the photo below is copied from that thread.
the mark is: ‘I/J.R. 20.2’ which I “think” means ‘1st battalion Infantry regiment 20’ but the last ‘.2’ ? The indication of battalion by roman numeral at the start of the string rather than company number by arabic numeral seems a bit unusual, so perhaps a property mark on training equipment assigned to the regiment?
I found some info about the 20th IR, but conflicting about which divisions it may have been part of.
the mark is: ‘I/J.R. 20.2’ which I “think” means ‘1st battalion Infantry regiment 20’ but the last ‘.2’ ? The indication of battalion by roman numeral at the start of the string rather than company number by arabic numeral seems a bit unusual, so perhaps a property mark on training equipment assigned to the regiment?
I found some info about the 20th IR, but conflicting about which divisions it may have been part of.
