and there was me thinking the Royal Flying Corps was part of the army, just like it says in the Army List and the Pay Warrant!
The antecedents of the RFC were various balloon and kite iterations of the Royal Engineers.
All of whom qualified under army rules for GC badges below corporal [or equivalent] full rank.
I would be interested to have chapter and verse of RNAS wearing GC badges other than under the RN regulations. It seems intrinsically unlikely. RN Division just possibly?
After 1907 the army badges ceased to carry extra pay [excepting men with reserved rights], and thus diverged from the RN system which continued to pay. The other obvious differences army/RN were position of wear, and the rank cut-offs.
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