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Originally Posted by billy
Here you go White -metal badge first, one on board has wire fixings, by itself with lugs, and the first in the group of four badges.
Three brass badges, first has wire fixings, middle is solid, third on lugs.
From Belgium Badge book, no 36 corresponds to 1st Parachute Rgt.
Colin aware of lugs are earliest, don’t like the flimsy wires fittings, I for some reason thought the Belgian SAS disbanded after the War same as our own but was resurrected as the 1st Parachute Rgt in the 50,s if this a wrong assumption?
Hope this all helps, cheers billy
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You are right that the Belgian SAS were disbanded after WW2 but they immediately became 1st Parachute Battalion in 1946, which is why they used the SAS ‘winged dagger’ but in metal, unlike the SAS cloth badge. They also reused the wartime Pegasus and the maroon beret. They continued to wear metal beret badges until 2011, when the battalion was disbanded. The Belgian Special Forces Group then re-adopted the ‘winged dagger’ but again in cloth form, returning to their WW2 SAS roots.