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Originally Posted by grey_green_acorn
This thread https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=77133 requested identification on a 'modern' Duke of Wellington's Regiment officer's cap badge with a slider marked FIRMIN
It raised further posts about the validity of 'modern' officers' cap badges fitted with sliders.
Here are some examples. Produced since the early 1990s some are/were issued for 'all ranks' but of reasonably high quality. QLR and PWO now obsolete.
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked FIRMIN
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked <>FIRMIN<>
Queen's Lancashire Regiment NSN 8455-99-147-5061 marked SM in rectangle (Shaw Munster)
Yorkshire Regiment (bronze for beret) NSN 8455-99-845-9094 marked LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD
Yorkshire Regiment (for cap) NSN 8455-99-551-3763 marked (badly) LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire NSN 8455-99-869-5601 marked FIRMIN
Tim |
Hi Tim,
All good post 1990 'All Ranks' badges - a few more with sliders that were (at least) at one stage officially designated so are:
Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment
Adjutant General’s Corps (Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) Branch)
Corps of Army Music
The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
London Irish Rifles [Beret]
etc.
On the other side of the coin are 'All Ranks' badges with lugs such as:
Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
King’s Regiment
The Parachute Regiment
The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) - this one is quite scarce in officially issued format
etc.
Regards,
Chris