I believe officers of the three regiment only wore their particular regiments cap badge on their Service Dress cap, the generic garter scroll gilt and enamel cap badge being worn on the forage cap.
To the best of my knowledge, no such particular regimental gilt and enamel badges were ever worn, if they had been you would certainly expect to see portraits extant today.
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Originally Posted by Toby Purcell
Before the original HCR was formed the two regiments wore individual cap badges on coloured forage caps, although they were very similar, but simply with different titles on the badge's circlet. Separate and beautifully enameled cap badges were introduced comprising a simple circlet with title, surmounted by a crown, and with the Royal cypher at its centre. When the 1st and 2nd LG merged their badge simply replaced 'first' and 'second' with 'The'.
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