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Old 04-02-20, 05:21 PM
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This thread https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=77133 requested identification on a 'modern' Duke of Wellington's Regiment officer's cap badge with a slider marked FIRMIN

It raised further posts about the validity of 'modern' officers' cap badges fitted with sliders.

Here are some examples. Produced since the early 1990s some are/were issued for 'all ranks' but of reasonably high quality. QLR and PWO now obsolete.

Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked FIRMIN

Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked <>FIRMIN<>

Queen's Lancashire Regiment NSN 8455-99-147-5061 marked SM in rectangle (Shaw Munster)

Yorkshire Regiment (bronze for beret) NSN 8455-99-845-9094 marked LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD

Yorkshire Regiment (for cap) NSN 8455-99-551-3763 marked (badly) LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD

Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire NSN 8455-99-869-5601 marked FIRMIN

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Old 04-02-20, 05:26 PM
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Default Officer Cap Badges with Sliders

Here are some pre 1990 'anomalies'.

Yorkshire Volunteers marked MARPLES & BEASLEY BIRMINGHAM

Queen's Surreys slider unmarked (NOT Birmingham Mint)

Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment slider unmarked (NOT Birmingham Mint)

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I can add this Loyals, but not sure if it's a Birmingham mint copy . . . . If it isnt, then another for the anomaly list.
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Thanks for showing. I suspect that is a Birmingham Mint badge. Here is mine for comparison. Note the wire through the lion’s mouth.

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Close but no cigar this time . . .
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This thread https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=77133 requested identification on a 'modern' Duke of Wellington's Regiment officer's cap badge with a slider marked FIRMIN

It raised further posts about the validity of 'modern' officers' cap badges fitted with sliders.

Here are some examples. Produced since the early 1990s some are/were issued for 'all ranks' but of reasonably high quality. QLR and PWO now obsolete.

Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked FIRMIN

Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked <>FIRMIN<>

Queen's Lancashire Regiment NSN 8455-99-147-5061 marked SM in rectangle (Shaw Munster)

Yorkshire Regiment (bronze for beret) NSN 8455-99-845-9094 marked LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD

Yorkshire Regiment (for cap) NSN 8455-99-551-3763 marked (badly) LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD

Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire NSN 8455-99-869-5601 marked FIRMIN

Tim
Hi Tim,

All good post 1990 'All Ranks' badges - a few more with sliders that were (at least) at one stage officially designated so are:

Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment
Adjutant General’s Corps (Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) Branch)
Corps of Army Music
The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry
London Irish Rifles [Beret]

etc.

On the other side of the coin are 'All Ranks' badges with lugs such as:

Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)
The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
King’s Regiment
The Parachute Regiment
The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment) - this one is quite scarce in officially issued format

etc.

Regards,

Chris
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Although I cannot contribute to the discussion on 'modern' badges, there is a long history of officer's badges with sliders.
I know of a HM silver Lpl Pals one and there are a few Lpl Irish (1939 Pattern) silver plated badges with sliders (before the HM silver versions appeared the next year).I think there is one in Dennis Wood's book on the Nth Fus.
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