Battalion Number Flashes

201 Shoulder Title
201 Shoulder Title (Northumberland)
202 Auxiliary Unit flashes from Geoffrey Newman
202 Shoulder Title (Norfolk) & Stand Down badge (Geoffrey Newman)
203 Shoulder Title Devon
203 Shoulder Title (Devon)
203 shoulder title embroidered over
203 & Home Guard Shoulder Title (embroidered over)
203 Dorset Home Guard Shoulder Title 2
203 Shoulder Title (Dorset)
Battalion Numbers Letter
Letter regarding Battalion Numbers (12 Dec 1942)
Sussex 203 Shoulder Title
Sussex 203 Shoulder Title
202 badge South Wales front
South Wales 202 (via John Pidgeon)
202 badge South Wales back
Rear of South Wales 202 (via John Pidgeon)
Kent Gardner Papers via N Bonney 188
Where to place the 203. (8 April 1943) from Captain Gardner papers
Kent Gardner Papers via N Bonney 333
Before battalion numbers (8 Oct 1942) from Captain Gardner papers
Kent Gardner Papers via N Bonney 341
Correct dress (24 July 1942) from Captain Gardner papers

On 12 Dec 1942 an order was issued that Auxiliary Units would be designated with Home Guard Battalion numbers. The Grouping was to be:

201 (GHQ Reserve) Battalion Home Guard – Scottish Command & Northumberland.

202 (GHQ Reserve) Battalion Home Guard – Northern Command (less Northumberland), Eastern & Western Commands.

203 (GHQ Reserve) Battalion Home Guard – Southern & South Eastern Commands.

See Area map

A cloth patch bearing the number beneath, or sometimes above, the County insignia began to be worn from that date.

Some originals were embroidered over.

References

Donald Brown

Beaminster Museum (Battle Dress of George Raymond Beaminster Patrol member)

The National Archives

Lynne Lambert (daughter of Patrol member Geoffrey Newman) 

Captain Gardner papers

Adrian Westwood

John Pidgeon