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An interesting forage cap, it is marked to 1st Bn Norfolk Regiment but has the red band of a "Royal" regiment.

Rather than the cap being manufactured with the red band it's been neatly and firmly applied, stitched on after manufacture.

The tailor's stamp appears to give a location of Jhansi, India, where 1st Bn Norfolk's were stationed in 1933.

The regiment was retitled the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1935 and the cap has been altered to reflect this.

Provenance is to a man who was a WOII, later RSM in the 1930's, commissioned Lieutenant (Quarter-Master) in November 1939.

Buttons are General Service pattern, the cap has been fitted with a slidered badge.