British TRF patches

[grey_green_acorn]

Originally Posted by badjez

GGA,

Attached is scan of a brassard, attributed to the Brit Cav Bat @1995, showing the TRF as worn by the British Cavalry Regiments whilst in Bosnia.

I know that a battalion of the RRF served in Bosnia at the same time as RAC units comprised Brit Cav Regt, but did RRF serve in 20 Armoured Bde whilst on UN duties? If they did then this might discredit this brassard as a RAC item.

I am still of the opinion that this TRF is RAC scarlet & yellow, not burgandy and primrose. The merrowed edge is black, not burgandy. This conforms to the entry in Marc's booklet size wise.

Stephen.

Your brassard is certainly that worn by BRITCAVBAT in Bosnia and the TRF is in RAC colours of scarlet and yellow. The RRF flash in a similar size is primrose and burgundy and there are four variants in my album including black and burgundy merrowed edges. It was only worn on the helmet cover.
The flash illustrated top right in post 1 looks to me like the RRF one - but it might just be a question of the viewers colour perception of the item as seen on the screen!

[MRAF]

Wikipedia has many of the current TRFs but it may need some of our membership to update the page to make it more useful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_recognition_flash

[Badger44]

Regarding the brassard shown by Badjez, I also have an example of this. I saw it being worn in Soldier Magazine at the time so wrote to C Sqn Queens Royal Lancers, who very kindly sent me the example I have. They advised me it was worn only during their tour of duty in Bosnia in 1995, and that C sqn was the only sub unit of the Regiment to serve with UNPROFOR. I do not know whether there were other cavalry sub units which also wore this flash. The red and yellow flash with black border is certainly different to my RRF helmet flash,and if the two are side by side, the difference is plain to see.