Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

[Borderer]

Originally Posted by Luke H

And I struggle to believe a ranker could turn up on parade with a silver plate badge with officers style voiding. I suspect he wouldn’t get much affection from his Sergeant or the rest of his company from the consequences of being ‘special’.

I think you need to understand what it is to serve in a Family Regiment and I can speak from 25 years 254 days service Pte to WO1(RSM) I or any of my NCO's would ever question a soldier wearing an officers pattern cap badge.

We as a family regiment may be unique in this, but I believe it does happen in other Scottish regiment, and the clue is in what we are 'A Family Regiment' soldiers are entitled to wear their relative cap badges and we as a regiment have kept up this practise for decades, GGGrand Fathers, etc, and Fathers and as you might expect they are worn with pride and a conversation topic when the inspecting officers served with and knows of the soldiers relative.

So please do not get to hung up on who wore this, as long as the badge has not been altered out with the regulation pattern then its good.

Kind regards
Hiram