Upper Thames Patrol WW2 Home Guard cap badge.

A good die-stamped brass personalised example on slider. Crowned conjoined oval shields, taken from the arms of the Thames Conservancy, with UTP below. (KK 2430)

Raised originally as an LDV unit in May 1940 by Abingdon?s MP Sir Ralph Glyn. The unit guarded the non-tidal part of the Thames from Teddington Lock to Oxford. See ?In the space of a single day? Insignia and Uniforms of the LDV and Home Guard by Mills & Carney. 192.