have you seen one of these before?

[jesmond]

sorry dont know how to post this so you can go direct to the link,
this is on ebay, have never seen one before so maybe its rare, i like to look for the unusual and ebay is a great place to find things, so what do you think or have you seen one.
go to ebay, put in prisoner of war fepow then hopefully you should find a small lapel badge, thanx

[RATTER15]

http://www.ebay.co.uk...of+war+fepow&_sacat=0

[daffy654]

http://www.ebay.co.uk...E&hash=item20c3e4a978

No I haven't seen one before.

[TheOtherHalf]

If I had one of these belonging to an ancestor, I would never ever sell it. Its a real part of history, wonder who it belonged to. I think most medals etc are engraved

[vulcan]

The wording on this badge seems strange considering it doesn't mention FEPOW, "badge of merit" could relate to anything.

[EDDIE51]

It is a memership badge for an association of service men who were taken prisoner by the Japanese in WW2 . I belive the association no longer exists as all the former members have now died. It is not a medal .

[jesmond]

thanx for putting the link on. i dont think that this is a medal as such, looks like something to show you were a fepow and was maybe given to show you were in that federation/club/association, but very unusual, almost cute cos its small, might be worth a bid.

[jesmond]

will do this right F.E.P.O.W means far east prisoner of war as far as i know and these initials are on it but yes you are right from the listing it doesnt say badge of merit, so maybe i am right in thinking its what you have if you are a former pow to say you were one of these, and sadly yes there arent many of them left

[jesmond]

have clicked on your link ratter15 didnt realise there are 2 listed, the one with london on could be one that that particular club has had specially made and the smaller one (one i am interested in) could be one that is made or issued that covers the whole of the u.k, just a thought, and to answer what someone said about not selling it if it belonged to an ancestor, maybe they have no-one to pass it onto, people sell on ebay for all sorts of reasons ad especially this time in a recession