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Guaranteed original. Complete & intact. This is an original WW2 Entertainments National Service Association ENSA Cap Badge for sale. In good condition. Please see our other items for more original WW1, WW2 & post war British military cap badges for sale including other Entertainments National Service Association ENSA cap badges.
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The Entertainments National Service Association or ENSA was an organisation set up in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British armed forces personnel during World War II. ENSA operated as part of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. It was superseded by Combined Services Entertainment (CSE) which now operates as part of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC).
The first big wartime variety concert organized by ENSA was broadcast by the BBC to the Empire and local networks from RAF Hendon in north London on 17 October 1939 and Adelaide Hall, The Western Brothers and Mantovani were amongst those entertainers appearing on the bill. A rare Newsreel of this concert showing Adelaide Hall singing We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line accompanied by Mantovani and his orchestra still exists.
Please see our other items for more original WW1, WW2 & post war British military cap badges for sale including other Entertainments National Service Association ENSA cap badges.
