The relevant section from my book Badges on Battle Dress.
Jon
Certain formations added distinguishing marks under arm of service strips to identify Divisional and Brigade headquarters’ staff. Based on the First World War coloured flags and pennants which had marked the location of Divisional and Brigade headquarters , a small red, swallow-tailed flag identified those serving at divisional HQ, a blue pennant those at Brigade HQ . The red flag has so far only been recorded for 43rd and 61st Division (428) but blue pennants were worn by brigades in 4th , 38th, 51st, 53rd, 61st and 78th Divisions. A variation of this scheme seems to have been adopted by 3rd Division’s brigades with 8th Infantry Brigade wearing a blue square , 9th Infantry Brigade a blue equilateral triangle and 185th Infantry Brigade a blue disc.
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