Green Howards FS side cap: fake or copy?
 

Hello everybody! I have recently purchased a Coloured FS side cap badged to the Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment, AKA Green Howards. On receiving it I have started to nurture some doubts about genuinity of the item. Plastic buttons imitating anodized metal with a KC, cloth label and size paper tag in centimeters are scarcely compatible with a production in the 1940s, therefore a very well made copy? A stage prop? Whats your opinion, gents?

Looks good to me.

Worn upto 2006 so could be only 14 years old legitimately, Certainly not WW2 though.

regards

The badge and buttons bear a coronet rather than kings crown, the cap is post WWII, the sizing shown in imperial and metric.

And the buttons are anodized. A nice cap with a good quality bullion badge. I would date it to the 60s or 70s.

CB

Original post WW2 Officers FS Cap Pre dates the 2007 Amalgamations and Formation of the Yorkshire Regiment.

very nice cap, probably dating to the early to mid 70's which is when makers started to use metric sizing afaik