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1954 Dated Dark Blue Beret Badged To Scots Guards Sergeant, RAMC Badge Backing.
A 1954 dated Kangol beret with RAMC (and RAVC?) cherry coloured cloth badge backing, it has a Scots Guards sergeants bi-metal badge. The band is of leather as is the badge slider pocket sewn inside the beret.
The badge is fitted so as not to be removed easily. It may be that it's not original to the beret, but it appears to have been on it for some time. The backing badge backing plate inside the beret is of brown painted tin. I take this to be the beret of a a Scots Guards sergeant attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps, prior to the Guards adoption of the khaki beret and the later adoption of their blue and maroon badge backing. |
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Could i see the back of the badge Leigh ?
Andy
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Leave to carry on Sir please. |
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Does not ring true to me.
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Leigh,
The problem here for me would be the positioning of the cap star, surely a Sergeant in the Guards would have placed his cap star in the correct place regardless of the Beret he was issued even if attached to another Unit and in all cases of ERE duty I am aware of the Sergeant would have retained his own Regimental pattern headdress. Simon. |
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Chances are that when you manage to remove the SG badge you'll find a slider hole in both backing and beret for a RAMC badge?
Rgds, Thomas |
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The obvious negative to me when I got it was that the badge is fitted so as not to be removed easily, but also so tightly that it wouldn't be easy if possible at all to use a button stick.
The tin backing plate seems an unnescessary addition if for a theatrical production, perhaps someone stuck their old badge on a beret for the kids to play with. I'll have a quick go at removing the badge. |
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