The patch was not one of the regtl dress distinctions that were taken into Coy distinctions when the Battalion was founded because the 4th Wilts did not form a company in their own right but Lee-Browne says that about 100 former menbers made up the Glosters company.
As an aside the DERR cap badge was not until sealed after the 1968 TA reforms so the Wessex adoption of the Regular Wessex Brigade cap badge was, ironically, soon less relevant when the Regular Battalions ditched it in 1968-70.
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