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Originally Posted by KLR
No, I didn't say 'long slidered badges' (I mean 'long slidered HPCs') but yes, the sockets were specified for the slouch, there is no mention of them for the FSH. (I will go into much greater detail in a book one day !)
What is clear from your excellent photographs is that many badges are affixed to the helmet itself, above the puggaree. Photographs of the King's Regt in South Africa show them being worn like this.
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Sorry, I was perhaps not being precise enough in this heated debate, I know that you meant HPCs, but I was thinking of them as 'badges' too and had not thought to differentiate. Clearly I should have done. Incidentally, although they were undoubtedly manufactured and regulated, in all my visits to military museums and private collections over the last 4 decades (especially infantry), I have never yet seen a single HPC, affixed (or otherwise), to a contemporary item of head dress. Puzzling!