10 PARA(V) DZ flash
When I was with 10 PARA in the early 1980s the type of DZ flash which started this thread was again on issue. The colours on the cheap screen-printed version issued during the late 1970s washed out easily and it tore easily, so it was often backed with a form of very thin white vinyl, but they were never popular. The type shown in the first post was used throughout the 1980s. The issue version had a black backing. A copy, with a white backing, could be bought from DuBoras in Aldershot and was also worn within the unit. This DZ flash was worn until the bigger merrowed-edge woven version was adopted when DZ flash sizes were standardised when 5th Airborne Brigade came into being.
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