What does CP 1 on a uniform mean?

FredPuli43 | 21:46 Sat 17th Nov 2012 | History

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In Dad's Army, Captain Mainwaring has a square, brown,flash, worn at the top of each arm of his battledress. It reads "C P
1 "
Meaning Commander Platoon 1 ? Or something else?

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ABerrant

The formation badges (CP1 for Walmington Platoon and CP2 for Eastgate Platoon) were supposedly based on the initials of David Croft and Jimmy Perry.

Jonathan-Joe

Some info here http://www.home-guard.org.uk/hg/struc.html

FredPuli43

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Thanks for that. it looks, from Jonathan's link, that CP1 is an entirely fictional badge and Aberrant is dead right.

plautus

I would have thought it stood for "Citizens' Patrol", but I could be wrong.

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RJBrennan

Those letters would have signified the county that the home guard were based in and the number would have shown which HQ it was. For example Ashby-de-la-Zouche in Leicester was LEI 11. Walmington on sea was a made up place so they made up the letters to represent a made up county and decided to pick their own initials.

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