This example embroidered on wool- a black square with a white circular disc containing a black swan. Made in facing pairs.

Brigade commanded in the UK by the Earl of Caithness 1952. Stationed At Barnard Castle 1952 and inspected by Field Marshal Sir William Slim in September of that year. Appears to have served in the Near East/Canal Zone and Cyprus in the 50s.

Some known units, approximate dates and locations:
2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. c1952 Barnard Castle
2nd Battalion Green Howards c1952 Barnard Castle, c1953 Canal Zone
1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment c1953-4? Canal Zone
1st Seaforth Highlanders c1954 Canal Zone
1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment c1954 Canal Zone
The Brigade was also joined at Barnard Castle 10/12/1952 by the 1st Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, duration unknown.

1955?-1958 – Brigade in Cyprus.
Brigade COs during the Cyprus Emergency:
1955-57 Brig. James Alexander Rowland Robertson, CB, CBE, DSO.
1957 -?? Brig. Henry Conyers Baker-Baker DSO, MBE.

References: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail 25 September 1952, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 17 August 1954, Daily Mirror 19 December 1958, Birmingham Daily Gazette 07 April 1954. See Cracroft’s Peerage for service of James Roderick [Sinclair], 19th Earl of Caithness, CVO CBE DSO.
Also see: Stiles, Richard G.M.L., Mayhem in the Med’: A Chronicle of the Cyprus Emergency 1955-1960.