As manchesters has said, at the time of the photo the double bugles badge was a clothing regulation specifically for rifle regiments and those Territorial Force battalions that through special heritage from their Rifle Volunteer Corps origins were permitted rifles appointments. Since No2 dress was introduced in the 1960s that strict differential was relaxed and various line regiments used double bugle badges as a marker for their special bugler appointments. This was sometimes as a prize for a man nominated as the Adjutant’s or Commanding Officer’s bugler.
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