The men in the photograph shown in the original post are very clearly members of the RAF and not the RFC, are you suggesting that the RAF was not created by the merger of RNAS and RFC?
A man need not have served in the RE, RFC or RNAS prior to joining the RAF to wear those chevrons.
Members of the RNAS, who were so entitled, did wear chevrons below any Rating and Qualification badge they were entitled to as shown in AdWO in ADM182.
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Originally Posted by grumpy
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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