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Old 07-02-21, 09:32 PM
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Default Royal marines Fs cap buttons
Hello! Someone knows what buttons wore RM in their sidecaps? General service or specific Marine buttons? In the pictures I found I can't see...thanks!
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The specific buttons would have been the lion above a crown. But it wouldn't surprise me if in war time they GS buttons
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Old 08-02-21, 09:42 AM
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Yes...that make sense...in wartimes you could see unofficial practices (before collect UK I collected US IIWW...and in US Army the unofficial practices were really usual!)
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Old 08-02-21, 06:52 PM
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Whether the marine changed the buttons who knows???
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Old 08-02-21, 09:47 PM
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Wow...that sidecap is just beautiful!!!...but I don't know wich buttons are these (I am afraid I don't know so much yet)...and why the red backing?
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Old 08-02-21, 10:20 PM
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The buttons are small RM buttons.
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The red badge backing was worn on the Field Service Cap by the Royal Marines, it's shown in wear in the first image in post no. 1.

During WWII it was common for officers to wear mess dress buttons on their blue Field Service Caps instead of the small uniform pattern buttons which were stipulated in the Dress Regulations of 1893, according to an article on Royal Marine Field Service Caps by Alastair Donald.
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Some information on the red backing

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Ok...thanks a lot for so valuable info!!!
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Old 09-02-21, 10:05 AM
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A beret with the same configuration.
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Yes...I know about the "tombstone" in RM blue berets...I just did not know the use of red backings in fs caps...but now I do! thanks to this excellent forum
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The red backing may have originated from the red cord boss worn as backing to a silver bugle badge on the blue FSC by RMLI officers (1893 Dress Regulations).
In 1941 an instruction was issued that the red badge backing worn on the khaki FSC was not to be worn on the blue FSC but two weeks later it was authorised for wear by officers of the RM Division.
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In 1941 an instruction was issued that the red badge backing worn on the khaki FSC was not to be worn on the blue FSC but two weeks later it was authorised for wear by officers of the RM Division.
...on blue FSC you mean, right? Because blue berets did not came until 1943...as I read..
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...on blue FSC you mean, right? Because blue berets did not came until 1943...as I read..
Yes, the blue FSC (sorry, I should have worded my post better).

That information is from the article by Alastair Donald that I mentioned earlier.
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