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Originally Posted by Frank Kelley
I'd be rather surprised if that term was in popular usage during the period in which the badges in this thread were actually worn, as far as I an aware, it was not.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary the earliest evidence of the term being used was in a 1972 novel by Marshall Pugh titled Murmur of Mutiny about British paratroopers based in the Middle East.
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They found it difficult enough to accept officers of other regiments wearing the conventional caps which they called crap-hats.
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