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Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 04-04-24, 01:53 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Royal Hampshire Regiment officer's beret badge. ... Royal Hampshire Regiment officer's beret badge. Purchased from manufacturer in 2021, described as new old stock rather than manufactured post the regiment's amalgamation with the Queen's Regiment.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 04-04-24, 01:49 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Officer's beret badge, 8th KRIH. 40mm x 34mm. Officer's beret badge, 8th KRIH. 40mm x 34mm.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 11-01-24, 02:50 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Can't be too many of those around Peter? Can't be too many of those around Peter?

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 11-01-24, 02:11 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, flag flying left. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, flag flying left.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 05-10-19, 02:22 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen A black beret? That would be 1st or 4th Battalion... A black beret? That would be 1st or 4th Battalion then? Or is the beret dark blue.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 29-09-19, 08:30 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Officer's beret badge, The Prince of Wales's Own... Officer's beret badge, The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 29-09-19, 05:25 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen I've only just remembered, I have seen a photo of... I've only just remembered, I have seen a photo of an ACF Lt Col (badged to a different regiment) wearing an OR's pattern buckled chinstrap on his forage cap.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 27-09-19, 10:05 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Nice - a little bit of a cavalry theme there? Nice - a little bit of a cavalry theme there?

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 26-09-19, 08:11 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen 5th Royal Innikilling Dragoon Guards officer's... 5th Royal Innikilling Dragoon Guards officer's coloured field service cap badge (embroidered on cap, c1953, cap labelled "by appointment to the late King George VI", badge still displaying the King's...

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 26-09-19, 08:05 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Queen's Royal Irish Hussars

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 26-09-19, 10:33 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Yes, nice cap. A few Queen's Regiment... Yes, nice cap. A few Queen's Regiment officer's bullion badges, two on berets.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 25-09-19, 12:44 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Your cap would be an OR's private purchase? Or... Your cap would be an OR's private purchase? Or a sergeants cap? Presumably WO's would wear officers quality chinstraps. Not many squaddies would want a "walking out cap" nowadays, and I wouldn't...

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 25-09-19, 10:10 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Royal Regiment of Wales officer's forage cap Royal Regiment of Wales officer's forage cap

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 22-09-19, 08:34 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Fusilier Brigade / RRF officer's badge (Field... Fusilier Brigade / RRF officer's badge (Field Officer's cap with provenance to an ex Royal Fusiliers National Service and TA officer, Honorary Colonel of The London Regiment, Honorary Visiting...

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 22-09-19, 08:00 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen A Victorian Royal Fusiliers officer's cap badge. ... A Victorian Royal Fusiliers officer's cap badge. The blue enameling is intact, just a little grimy.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 20-06-18, 11:14 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen An unobtrusive little bullion badge, the design... An unobtrusive little bullion badge, the design being only 25mm x 15mm. Sewn on to a 1953 dated issue dark blue beret (the stitching is as noticeable as the bullion is now), I suspect that the badge...

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 06-12-17, 09:11 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen I'll PM the name to you. He wore a collar badge... I'll PM the name to you. He wore a collar badge in the beret, (perhaps not at the time the footage was taken) somewhere I'll have photos showing it in wear, including of it being worn upside down...

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 06-12-17, 07:43 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen My Platoon Commander in an infantry battalion in... My Platoon Commander in an infantry battalion in NI 1973-75 was an Int Corps subaltern, he wore "our" dark blue beret with an Int Corps black painted silver collar badge. (As shown in this...

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 25-11-17, 10:51 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen interesting RTR officers beret badge (I'm after... interesting RTR officers beret badge (I'm after one of those badges), but as you've indicated is it an original for the astrakhan or a more recent production/

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 25-11-17, 10:47 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Thanks - it's pushing it a bit to call the badge... Thanks - it's pushing it a bit to call the badge "bullion" given that only the trident qualifies it as such.

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 25-11-17, 07:47 AM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen "Always" the case, I just wondered if the badge... "Always" the case, I just wondered if the badge had any provenance to a specific unit so at least that example could be properly identified. I have only a few officers bullion badges, probably 6 or...

Forum: Formation Signs and Patches 24-11-17, 07:16 PM

Replies: 65 Bullion Embroidered Officers Badges Views: 5,230 Posted By leigh kitchen Nice, is top right a GG officers shoulder strap... Nice, is top right a GG officers shoulder strap device. Any positive identification of top left?

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