Michael
That is quite OK -I don't mind little jabs.
I visited the PRO in October last year and spent a day going through many files related to the insignia of the Irish regiments. I copied the entire file in question relating to the request of the Royal Ulster Rifles to obsolete the Officer's cord boss. the Airborne badge information was (unexpectedly) in that file, I was quite excited at the time as I had not seen that information before.
I do not claim to be the first to have read and comented on that file/information. If another individual has it on another site - just all the better for the collecting community.
I used to live in Surrey for 10 years and continually regret not taking the time to be at Kew. Now that I am on the other side of the pond it is very diffciult to get there and too expensive to have the staff copy files and send by mail.
I encourage all to support and engage in this type of research the details are amazing and go a long way to helping us in our hobby.
John
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