Ras al-Khaimah police Chief’s gorget patch?

[Chacal]

Good afternoon

This has just arrived, it was advertised as a “Colonial Police Chief collar badge”, and comparing the button with badges posted on another thread* I believe it to have been worn on the bush jacket collar of the Commander of the Ras al-Khaimah Police. It measures 55 x 30mm, and the button is 16.5mm in diameter.

As always I welcome comments, good or bad - because if I’m wrong I’d like to find out what it is, if I’m right it is another Emirate ticked off my list.

*http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ad.php?t=45971

All the best

Graham

[Eddie Parks]

It's certainly a RAK button so I'm sure your attribution is correct. Nice thing!
Eddie

[Chacal]

Thank you Eddie. I should thank you twice, because without your interesting post on the RAK MF showing their badges last year I doubt I'd have looked at it twice. As it was I'd pressed "Buy It Now" before realising I was still logged into the firm's eBay account and not mine! Oops!

There is a photo in David Neild's book of him with the RAK Police Commander Trevor Bevan in which the latter has something like this on his jacket collars. Bevan's wife has written a book* on their travels policing various (former) colonies and protectorates which I'll get once the Glasgow police swap meet is finished next Sunday.

*Sheila Bevan “The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire” pub: 2001 [so not a 'new' book, but new to me].
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parting-Yea.../dp/1860647340

Again, many thanks Eddie

Graham

[Eddie Parks]

No thanks really needed, I am very jealous of that gorget! But at least we now know there were RAK buttons, probably worn by both MF and Army.

Really good catch.

Eddie