Scottish Returned Far East Prisoner of War Association: Gilded Bronze & Enamelled Lapel Badge

Metal: Gilded bronze with enamelsDimension: 31mm (H) & 24mm (W)Weight: 10gObverse: White enamelled shield with Thistle and below crossed Scottish Claymore (Basket Hilted) Sword & Japanese 'Samurai' Sword. Surrounded by legend 'Scottish Returned F.E.P.O.W.' Below a subsidiary white enamelled scroll with word 'Association' in giltReverse: Uniface. Fitted with a lapel fob as issuedMany thousands of Scots, Naval, Military & Arr Forces personnel and Expatriate Civilians, were made prisoner and or interred in Military P.O.W. and Civilian Internment Camps scattered across Asia, 1941-1945. Amongst the British Army units captured in theatre were no less then 3 x regular army infantry battalions, and one Territorial Army artillery battalion viz 2nd Battalion Roysl Scots (Hong Kong, 25 December 1941) and 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders; 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Regiment of Artillery the (Singapore, 15 February 1942)A very scarce seen item of insigniaCondition: VF