The same book mentions that one morning in Italy, 1944, the Mortar Officer of 2nd Kings Liverpool Regiment, Lt Trevor Cole-Rees paraded wearing a square red patch behind the cap badge on his beret, the practise was adopted by the battalion and some time after the liberation of Rome and before the battalion moved to Greece inDecember 1944 a tailor in Rome produced an embroidered beret badge on a maroon backing.
In 1948 the square red patch was authorised by the Dress Committee and was then worn by all ranks of the regiment.
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