Upper Thames Patrol home guard UTP cap badge

A rare original 'Upper Thames Patrol other ranks cap badge'; die-stamped brass Crowned example displaying the conjoined oval shields, taken from the arms of the 'Thames Conservancy' with 'UTP' below. Very good condition, retaining original slider fitting to reverse, brass now toned. Height 39mm. Raised originally as an LDV unit in May 1940 by Abingdon’s 'MP Sir Ralph Glyn'. The unit guarded the non-tidal part of the Thames from Teddington Lock to Oxford. See: “In the space of a single day” Insignia and Uniforms of the LDV and Home Guard by Mills & Carney. No 192.