[slick_mick]

Hi Guys,

Here's an interesting badge I was emailed about recently.

A 1st Armoured Regiment hat badge with a King's Crown.

Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the back of it or a high resolution one of the front.

I've certainly not seen one of these before and my theory is that someone snipped of the Queen's Crown of a 1953-60 period badge and added a King's Crown to it for some reason. Hard to say with any certainty without looking at the back.

The interesting thing is that I have seen a 1948 dated badge specification sheet showing a KC version of the 1st Armoured Regiment hat badge so it would appear that there with actually plans to produce one.

The regiment wore a chrome Rising Sun badge on their berets before being issued with the Queen's Crown version around 1954.

If I can manage to find a picture of the back of this badge, I'll post it here.

Mick