Where to Sell My King and Empire Silver War Badge?
We buy WW1 For King and Emprie, Services Rendered, Silver War Badges, so if you are looking where to sell my WWI Silver War Badge or WW1 Wound Stripe that you have inherited, or perhaps you wish to sell my collection of First World War Silver Wound Badges (aka, For Services Rendered silver badge) or medals, then we would be more than happy to buy these from you for a cash offer! Please just email some photos of the silver wound badges or WW1 medals you wish to sell (including photos of the backs if possible) to sales@britishmilitarybadges.co.uk and we will get back to you with an immediate offer!
We buy all types of Great War silver wound badges and medals for soldiers wounded in action and pay top prices, without the need to pay 25% fees in auction costs to an auction house. In addition to silver war badges we can also help you if you wish to sell a WW1 British army wound stripe badge, or if you want to sell my great war medals, we are happy to buy those too at great cash prices. If you have inherited some WW1 memorabilia and are thinking that I want to sell my WW1 Medals, then we offer the simplest and quickest solution to cash in your medals, silver war badges, wound stripes or original medal ribbon bars. Please email us today for an offer or check out our "we buy" page for more information.
The silver war badge, sometimes known as the "Silver Wound Badge", "For Services Rendered Badge", "Discharge Badge", the "King and Empire Badge" the "Wound Badge" or "Services Rendered Badge", was first issued in September 1916, along with an official certificate of entitlement. If a person served in an active war zone then a King's Certificate of Discharge stating that they "Served with honour" would accompany the badge. The large sterling silver lapel badge was intended to be worn on civilian clothes. The decoration was introduced as an award of "King's silver" for having received wounds or injury during loyal war service to the Crown's authority. A secondary causation for its introduction was that a practice had developed in the early years of the war in the United Kingdom where some women took it upon themselves to confront and publicly embarrass men of fighting age they saw in public places who were not in military uniform, by ostentatiously presenting them with white feathers, as a suggestion of cowardice. As the war had developed substantial numbers of servicemen who had been discharged from His Majesty's Forces with wounds that rendered them unfit for war service, but which were not obvious from their outward appearance, found themselves being harassed in such a manner and the badge, to be worn on the right breast while in civilian dress, was a means of discouraging such incidents being directed at ex-forces' personnel. It was forbidden to wear the badge on a military uniform.
The British Army began awarding a brass "Wound Stripe" in 1916, with approval by King George V. The badge was worn vertically on the left forearm and inset between the Good Conduct stripes, fastened through the uniform cloth. Additional badges were granted for subsequent wounds. For our current stock of WW1 Silver War Badges and medals that we have for sale please click on our WW1 medals stock page here.