East Anglian Brigade

[Cezarek]

Hi,
Please can someone tell me whether the East Anglian Brigade soldiers wore a patch on their shoulders?
Cezarek

[ANGLE IRON]

There is a picture of a corporal in the back of (The old dozen a century of photographs ) wearing the new East anglian badge on beret , East anglia shoulder title white on red and a minden flash, no formation sign, Kevin

[grey_green_acorn]

An example of the EAST ANGLIA shoulder title and East Anglian Training Brigade flash

Tim

[Mike Jackson]

East Anglian Brigade Territorial Army (TA) units wore a variation of the above sign:
East Anglian Bde TA.jpg

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The blue Viking flash was worn (on the left arm) by Royal Norfolks once basic training had been completed; not before.

Members of the permanent depot staff, and elsewhere in the East Anglian Division/District area also wore the red Viking badge, but on the right arm.

Therefore, members of the permanent staff at any of the East Anglian Regimental Depots wore the red Viking on the right arm and the blue Viking on the left. The red Viking was the East Anglian Divisional/District badge; its headquarters being at Colchester, Essex.

Whereas only permanent staff of the depots, or Divisional/District HQ, wore both red and blue Vikings, any other regimental or corps personnel actually posted under the command of Division/District, wore just the red Viking, plus their own insignia on the other arm - this would include such people as Royal Signals, Royal Engineers, RASC, Catering Corps staff, etc., based at Divisional/District HQ, or posted to one of the East Anglian depots, or staff at Stanford Battle Area, etc. However, some personnel were unable to wear the red Viking on the right arm since this was where either their own Corps or Regimental insignia, or trade badges were worn, thus it would have been necessary for the red Viking to have been worn on the left arm, which would also have been the case for some infantry units under the direct command of Divisional/ District HQ. This accounts for the left-facing, red Viking pattern badge.

There was no right-facing blue Viking badge.

Here is a picture (apologies for the poor quality) of the black on yellow, Royal Norfolk Regiment cloth shoulder title being worn in conjunction with the yellow on red Viking badge:

R Norf & Viking.jpg

Regards to all,

Peter.

[Cezarek]

Thank expression. As I understand - so if I try to collect the insignia associated with the Essex Regiment that I should put in his collection of red Viking?
Cezarek

[norfolk regt man]

Originally Posted by Peter J

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The blue Viking flash was worn (on the left arm) by Royal Norfolks once basic training had been completed; not before.

Members of the permanent depot staff, and elsewhere in the East Anglian Division/District area also wore the red Viking badge, but on the right arm.

Therefore, members of the permanent staff at any of the East Anglian Regimental Depots wore the red Viking on the right arm and the blue Viking on the left. The red Viking was the East Anglian Divisional/District badge; its headquarters being at Colchester, Essex.






Whereas only permanent staff of the depots, or Divisional/District HQ, wore both red and blue Vikings, any other regimental or corps personnel actually posted under the command of Division/District, wore just the red Viking, plus their own insignia on the other arm - this would include such people as Royal Signals, Royal Engineers, RASC, Catering Corps staff, etc., based at Divisional/District HQ, or posted to one of the East Anglian depots, or staff at Stanford Battle Area, etc. However, some personnel were unable to wear the red Viking on the right arm since this was where either their own Corps or Regimental insignia, or trade badges were worn, thus it would have been necessary for the red Viking to have been worn on the left arm, which would also have been the case for some infantry units under the direct command of Divisional/ District HQ. This accounts for the left-facing, red Viking pattern badge.

There was no right-facing blue Viking badge.

Here is a picture (apologies for the poor quality) of the black on yellow, Royal Norfolk Regiment cloth shoulder title being worn in conjunction with the yellow on red Viking badge:

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Regards to all,

Peter.

This is the way all research should be done, keep it up.