One of the rarer badges from the War Years Remembered, Great War home front collection.

A rare example Great War period Belfast Sailor's & Soldier's Service Club War Service made in silver with enamel detailing to the badge.
It bears the Belfast Coat of Arms and the reverse is stamped "Sterling" as well as the maker's details "T.L.M" (Thomas Lyster Mott).
It is also stamped with its original owners issue number it stands 36mm high.

The Belfast Sailor’s & Soldiers Service Club was in Waring Street in 1917 and some notable persons were involved during its operation.

William Cleland Gabbey, who lived at 117 University Street, Belfast with his wife Margaret, son Foster and Daughter Mary. He was a member of the Rotary Club in Belfast being president at one time, and eventually took over the running of his father’s timber business in Hope Street. During the Great War he was an untiring supporter of soldiers and sailors, their welfare, founding many institutes to provide help and workshops for disabled soldiers and sailors and pension help with those who no longer served in the military.
As well as this he founded the Sailor’s and Soldier’s Services Club where they could gather and exchange stories bringing a little normality to life after the war.
Until his death in 1919 at the age of 45, just after the war, he was tireless in his support of ex-service men, and his many friends who held him in high esteem, erected a memorial in his memory.
His daughter Mary Sinclair married John Alexander Crockett at Fitzroy Presbyterian Church in October 1924. Her brother-in-law was Temporary 2nd Lt. Charles Love Crockett who served with the 11th/ 12th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers as part of the 36th (Ulster) Division. He went with a detachment from the Regiment’s depot at Enniskillen to the troublesome streets of Dublin in 1916 where he met his death and died on the 29th April. (It is not mentioned in 1916 Rebellion Hand Book), in King George V hospital in Dublin aged20.
At the time of his death, different versions of the circumstances were reported, one claimed that it was a rebel attack while other record that it was ‘friendly fire’. However it turns out that the bullet was fired by a soldier on guard at Fitzwilliam Street, who saw him running across the road and fired mistaking him for a rebel. As there were no coffins available in Dublin, one had to be sent from Londonderry and he was conveyed home and buried on the 3rd May 1916 but his parents requested that they did not wish a military funeral when he was laid to rest in the City Cemetery Londonderry.

In 1918 Mr R.M. Liddell was its President and Mr R.K.L. Galloway, Hon. Treasurer, Ulster Bank, of Waring Street, Belfast.
Miss Emily Crawford Simpson had served with the VAD (Volunteer Aid Detachment) from 1915 to 1919 as a nurse and a cook she worked at the Services Club from Aug. 1918 to Aug 1919. for 12 hours a day till the club closed.