Hi Peter, I can think of a plausible reason why the collars appear more than the beret badge. The beret is much easier to lose than the collars on the BD. On RTU, The luckless individual would be told to get a new beret from stores, but if they were short of cap badges (as it seems with this unit) a private purchase of a sand cast version down at the souq would remedy the problem. The letter 4 on the sand cast badge also looks sand cast (as it should be). I don't think galvanising the WM from an existing collar was the practice on the evidence from that badge.
Cheers,
Gaz
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