A First War Commonwealth "Hate" Belt

A First War Commonwealth "Hate" Belt - This fabric belt has an embroidered beige, brown and black upper with a mesh burlap backer, a clip with dual hooks on the right end and a clip with large dual receiving eyes on the left end, with thirty-one badges items attached: ten cap badges, seven collar tabs, eleven shoulder titles and three buttons. Included are, from left to right: a Plain Button (bronze, 20.8 mm); a Royal Artillery Cap Badge (bronze, 49 mm x 66.7 mm); a German Imperial Button (silvered iron, 20.5 mm); a Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) Shoulder Title (bronze, 39.3 mm x 46.7 mm); a Norfolk Regiment Shoulder Title (bronze, 10.5 mm x 46.8 mm); a Lancashire Fusiliers Cap Badge (two-piece construction, bronze and white metal, 41.2 mm x 50.8 mm); a British West Indies Regiment Shoulder Title (bronze, 17 mm x 38.7 mm); a Pioneer Battalion Collar Tab (bronze, 20.2 mm x 31.5 mm); an Australia Commonwealth Military Forces Collar Tab (bronze, 27.7 mm x 41.7 mm); a Royal Engineers Cap Badge (bronze, 41.7 mm x 46 mm); a Hampshire Regiment Shoulder Title (bronze, 11 mm x 49.8 mm); a 4th Territorial Force Collar Tab (bronze, 12 mm x 28.2 mm); an East Yorkshire Regiment Cap Badge (two-piece construction, bronze and white metal, 42 mm x 44.8 mm); a Royal Field Artillery Shoulder Title (bronze, 18 mm x 39.5 mm); a Royal Garrison Artillery Collar Tab (bronze, 21 mm x 50.8 mm); a Royal Garrison Artillery Shoulder Title (bronze, 18 mm x 44.3 mm); an Australia Commonwealth Military Forces Cap Badge (bronze, 43.5 mm x 61.5 mm); an Australia Commonwealth Military Forces Shoulder Title (bronze, 9 mm x 55 mm); a (1st, 2nd & 3rd City of London) Royal Fusiliers Cap Badge (41 mm x 50 mm); a King's Own Royal Regiment Shoulder Title (bronze, 12 mm x 52 mm); an Army Service Corps Cap Badge (bronze, 43.7 mm x 45 mm); a Cheshire Regiment Shoulder Title (bronze, 11.8 mm x 50 mm); a Worcestershire Regiment Cap Badge (bronze, 42.2 mm x 50.7 mm); a Machine Gun Corps Shoulder Title (bronze, 16.5 mm x 43.7 mm); a Fusiliers Collar Tab (bronze, 18.7 mm x 31.3 mm); Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Button (blackened bakelite, 17 mm); a Cheshire Regiment Cap Badge (bronze, 42 mm x 49.5 mm); a Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) Cap Badge (white metal, 19.8 mm x 32.5 mm); a Rifle Brigade Collar Tab (bronze, 12 mm x 24 mm); a Royal Horse Artillery Shoulder Title (bronze, 18 mm x 43 mm); and a New Zealand Rifle Brigade Collar Tab (bronze, 26.3 mm x 39.5 mm). The various badges and buttons are held in position via a series of period sliders, lugs and pins, large safety pins, wooden pegs and wires, the belt measuring 55 mm wide x 985 mm in length, without interruption in the fabric. Surface oxidation and undulation evident on a few badges, better than very fine.