Brigadier cap
 

To continue with good news/bad news about my collection, here is a Brigadier peaked cap. I am waiting anxiously for your comments.

Regards

Laurent

Fine original post 1953 cap made by Moss Bros.

There's recently been a crackdown on the wearing of "Regimental distinctions" by senior officers. Apparently they're all supposed to wear this rather than "Regimental Headdress". I guess some senior chap is jealous of SAS/Para types because he failed selection then!

Ian H

That senior chap is CGS.

In fact ex-Para Regt Generals still retain their maroon berets whilst all others have adopted the blue beret/cap of the GS. All GS, however wear the GS mess kit, cap badge, GS TRF and GS blue stable belt.

I can hear the orders now:

Monty - take the black beret off immediately and what is that RTR capbadge doing on it too? (He had a para beret with 2 cap badges on it too. It used to be in long-gone Airborne Forces Museum in Aldershot)
De La Billiere - exchange your SAS beret for Cap GS now....

It's never going to work I tell you.
Unless the guidance has changed very recently a Para Brigadier was told he was no longer allowed to wear his maroon beret.

Ian H

But what about the really important stuff - will a RRF chap be able to wear a hackle?

Ian

I am sure you are right but James Bashall was on TV quite recently with a maroon beret. He was wearing the GS TRF and stable belt.

Alan

http://www.tentors.org.uk/

General Bashall in a fetching maroon beret last weekend.

Colonel/Brigadier ex-RSDG
 

A service dress cap for a former Royal Scots Dragoon Guards officer, with regimental side buttons, and the unique black crown piping.

Lack of red crown piping indicates an officer ex a non-royal regiment?

I have a similar cap to the one shown in post no. 1 with no red crown piping but with silver on gilt R. SIgs buttons and with removable red band.

I have seen a photo of Monty wearing an Australian style bush hat with several badges on it including a North Staffords and if I remember correctly a Staffordshire Yeomanry.

F M Montgomery Bush Hat
 

Here it is.
Jo

© IWM (E 19699)

❡...I wonder, what happened to this hat...
http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/37/831...at=photographs

That is such a brilliant picture. I hope it is still around somewhere.

I suspect there's more than one around......

There was one in the Australian War Memorial Museum about twenty years ago. Don't know if that's its home or whether it ws on loan.