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Originally Posted by leigh kitchen
"Edwards & Langley" notes that the badges were worn in brass by Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line on tunics, serge frocks and undress jackets, by infantry on tunics or full dress frocks, service dress, khaki drill and by Highland battalion including HLI on white jackets.
The larger size usually worn on the tunic, the smaller usually in service dress.
They were issued in worsted
"To the best of our knowledge they were never made in gold wire - nor was there a need."
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The size was a matter of timing: the large sizes were withdrawn from issue a few years before the Great War. The worsted varieties, nice though they are, were never Ordnance issue, but private purchase from enterprising tailors.