Army Order 308 of 1918, introducing what was in effect the badging system current even today, makes the most senior saddler a saddler quartermaster sergeant/corporal, ranking as a WO Class 2, and wearing a crown with wreath AND BIT.
Photos will, I expect, demonstrate that all ranks of saddler wore the bit badge, but the photos will be scarce because saddlers were not established in large numbers, perhaps one per troop, working centrally under the senior rank, in turn under the QM.
A bit on blue facing would belong either on a scarlet Household cavalry tunic [Life Guards] or on a blue tunic of Line, and on scarlet facing on the Blues and Royals. After 1868 only Household troops' badges were to be on facing colour, but there is evidence that facings crept back [for cavalry] in the Edwardian period.
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