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RASC Air Despatch sign dates
I'm trying to establish the latest date when the printed RASC Dakota sign would have been worn on the Denison smock. I've come across a vague reference to 'some bloke in the 70s' with a pair on his shirt, but I wonder if anyone can be more precise than this? I guess I'm really asking the actual date the Dakota sign was last issued. Thanks in advance for any information.
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Another bloke in the 70's answer I'm afraid - I was in a mixed unit in 1979, on the one occasion I remember uniform being worn by a few of us a RCT man wore the Dakotas on his Denison.
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47 Air Dispatch Sqn, RCT, were certainly wearing them at RAF Lyneham in 1980, and I think I'd seen them being worn on subsequent trips back to Lyneham well into the 1980s and possibly the 1990s.
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47 Air Despatch Sqn RCT were wearing the Dakota badge at top of left sleeve of the DPM para smock in 1982 and its use continued on smocks intermittently - I saw the Dakota worn on the right arm of a DPM para smock in 2004. The Sqn became part of 13 Air Assault Support Regt RLC in around 2013 (and they now wear the 13 Regt DZ flash). The Dakota continues to be worn on flying suits and is now worn on No.2 Dress too.
In answer to the question about the wearing of the badge on Denison smocks I have seen many later issue 1959 pattern smocks with the Dakota on them, so certainly into the 1960s (photos confirm in 1960, 1967 and 1969) and probably into the 1970s too. ‘GloucYeoman’ will certainly know.... Last edited by Colin S; 02-04-21 at 06:55 PM. |
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I saw the Dakota badge worn on the sleeve of a 59 pattern Denison smock worn by an RCT driver in Northern Ireland in December 1970.
Tim
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Many thanks to all for your prompt replies -- much appreciated. I've acquired a rather well-worn postwar denison smock bearing a pair of the Dakota signs, but the maker's label is washed out and illegible. It looks from your information as though it could have been worn as late as the 1970s. Cheers again.
Last edited by lettman; 02-04-21 at 10:29 PM. |
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