South African British Empire Service League (BESL) Womens Auxiliary Breast Pin Brooch Badge

In superb condition with gilt bright no damage to the enamel. Original and fully functional pin fixings to the reverse A much harder to find women's issue of this association.

In the aftermath of the Great War, as Earl Haig was setting up the British Legion, a similar organisation was set up by Haig and Jan Smuts in South Africa known as the British Empire Service League (South Africa). The BESL (SA) was founded in 1921 in Cape Town to support old soldiers from the Union. In 1941 the name of the organisation was updated to the “South African Legion of the BESL”, a name it would keep until 1952.

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Code: 64802