however Major Northern was wearing it in August when he was wounded whilst serving with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, an unofficial practice which I'm sure he was not alone in, particularly when completely formed subunits of the 24L were sent together to their new Regiments where they continued to serve together on arrival.
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I have also heard stories of some of the 24th lancers officers and OR's wearing their 24th lancers cap badges right throughout the rest of the war whilst serving with the 23Rd Hussars and SRY with very little in the way of challenges by their superiors.
I have a slightly blurry photograph of my grandad still wearing his 24th lancers side cap so must have been taken around 1941 before they were issued the black beret you can't see any badge but is definitely 24L era
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