Re: French Badges
Good day Billy,
Here's what I dug up out of my reference material. I collect world para, so most is about French/Foreign Legion para. I'll number the photos in sequence from both posts going left to right, and top to bottom. Some, I'll skip as there are repetitions. Within the photos, it will be the same.
Photo(P) # 5 Row(R) 1 #1 17th Para Engr Regt Lebanon
R2 #1 2nd Para Marine Regt
#2 Combat swimmer qual
#5 8th Para Marine Regt
P # 9 R1 #1,2,3 French Para beret badge
R2 #1-5 Foreign Legion (FL) beret badge
R3 #1-3 1st Regt FL Para beret badge
#5 1st Regt FL Para pocket crest
P # 10 R1 #1-7 pocket crest 2nd FL Para
R2 #1 pocket crest 3rd Regt FL Inf
#2 beret badge 3rd FL Inf
P # 11 All FL pocket crests, except R2#4 beret badge
P # 17 R4 #3-5 Pre-Military Para qual
P # 19 R1 #3-4 2nd Company, 9th Regt Para Chausseurs
R3 #2 9th Regt Para Chausseurs
P # 20 R1 #7 ??Hungarian qual of some kind (looks similar to Hung. para qual)
P # 21 R1 #1-4 Commando quals
#5 Commando Instr qual
R2 #3 FL Detachment, Moyote
P # 24 R1 #2-3 crest French Airborne School
#5 crest 1st Regt Para Chausseurs
R2 #1-4 Fr basic para qual
P # 25 R2 #1 Pre-Military Para Initiation qual
#2-3 Fr Para Instr qual
#4 Cambodia para qual
#5 Fr Free Fall qual
Hope this is of some help. Stay safe and have fun.
Regards,
Ian
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The day the government succeeds in taking away our dress uniforms, badges and colours, and all the so called "non-functional" items; they will find themselves with an army that cannot defend them. Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
Last edited by Ian B; 30-06-20 at 05:15 PM.
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