Cap Badge - Guards Machine Gun Battalion This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $70.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. Badge: A white metal five-point star with the points being bullets, in between each bullet point a different emblem as follows: grenade, rose, thistle, shamrock and leek, representing the five Regiments of the Foot Guards. In the centre is a circlet bearing QUINQUE JUNCTA IN UNO 1916 (Five Joined as One). There is a King George V cipher in the centre. The Guards Machine Gun Regiment was a regiment of the British Army. It was initially formed in 1915 when machine gun companies were formed in the Guards Division. In April 1917, the four companies were grouped together as a single battalion of the Machine Gun Guards, before being re-designated by Royal Warrant in May 1918 as the 6th, or Machine Gun, Regiment of Foot Guards. In June, the regiment was reorganised into battalions