Jimmy's
If it helps I can also confirm that back in the early 80's the staybright Jimmy was definately worn by OR's in the SAS beret when serving in 264 Sig Sqn. one of my fellow soldiers who qualifed and returned back for a short while to our unit (can't remember why), also wore the most prestigious item the 264 brown/green lanyard and not the standard blue lanyard of the Royal Signals.
Incidently I always wore on excercises (Unoficially) a solid metal Jimmy with a slider to the rear (not the usual 2 lugs) in my dark blue signals beret with a standard staybright Queens crown (with lug), not sure what period this brass & white metal Jimmy badge was from but I still have it somewhere, saved the Jimmy breaking in cammo nets all the time.
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