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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen
An Army Air Corps beret "badged" to the Black Watch.
The beret is a "KANGOL" with Imperial size stamp and no other markings.
There is a semi circular badge stiffener behind the government pattern tartan patch, manufactured within the beret between the outer and the liner.
The tartan patch has an opening at the top, in the centre.
The rim is of black plastic.
When I got the beret it didn't have the hackle, which I've added for the photos (feathered section of the hackle is 3 1/2" long.).
Given the Imperial sizing and plastic rim I'm guessing that the beret dates from c 1970 - early 80's?
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Lieutenant D.V. Fortune, 1st Bn The Black Watch, was seconded to the Army Air Corps in 1968 as a helicopter pilot flying Sioux helicopters. He later served with the Royal Scots Greys and 14/20th Hussars and retired as Captain in 1972. He wore the Red Hackle in a blue AAC beret and was nicknamed the 'Whirly Jock' (Twenty years later he re-activated as a Reservist flying Gazelles but did not wear the Hackle).