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24-03-17, 10:18 AM
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? Brigadier
Hi, is there any significance in the different shades of red? thanks in advance Mike?
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24-03-17, 10:27 AM
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These are cap badges for a Staff Officer, not just a Brigadier.
In WW1 officers as low in rank as a Lt. were on the staff. Both shades appear scarlet so just age/manufacturing differences. regards
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24-03-17, 04:34 PM
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They may be sleeve badges for the 15/19 KRH, not sure of the correct size.
Marc
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I am still looking for British Army cloth Formation, Regimental, Battalion, Company and other Unit sleeve badges, from 1980 onwards.
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24-03-17, 07:32 PM
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I was about to reply by saying that the darker red backing may have signified a RAMC (full) Colonel / Brigadier.
But - as I prepared to post these badges I note that the backing is black. Anyway, the first two belonged to my grandfather who was a Colonel in the RAMC - the third was my grandmother's 'sweetheart brooch' ! I have one of his hats somewhere and that has a dark red band around the crown. By the way - here is great-grandfather - a Staff Captain in the RA wearing royal crest badge !!
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25-03-17, 04:14 AM
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The South African UDF Staff officers wore same badge with an orange (which can appear scarlet in some pictures) background similar to the first picture shown. These were adopted c.1934/35 and worn throughout WWII.
The second one appears to be more crudely constructed and flat in appearance similar in construction to Indian Staff officers badges I have seen (these however were on a black background). Steven
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