sarmajor, I'm fascinated to see your post on Sir Thomas Blamey's rank epaulette.
I was not so fortunate to find the rank insignia of the only Australian Field Marshal in history, but I did find a set of more recently made Field Marshal epaulettes on the Australian DPM camo material.
These have the QC instead of the KC, and were prepared for British royalty on a visit, or in the event Australia had a general promoted.
As it is, these ended up in my collection, and I have not seen another pair since.
Alf
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Originally Posted by sarmajor
This is probably the rarest badge ever worn by a member of the British or Commonwealth forces.
It is the cloth shoulder rank badge of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey (a man not particularly popular with the rank and file) but the Commander in Chief of the Australian military forces during WWll.
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