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Old 12-07-21, 09:01 AM
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Default Maroon beret with unusual backing

Gents, picked up at Chatham yesterday in the 50p box, a rather well worn maroon beret, with an unusual black oblong badge backing.

The silhouette of the badge created by the fading of the back material made me realise it was a 1 RGR example.

Shown purely for interest- not sure if they surface too often.

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Old 12-07-21, 09:50 AM
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Bess, nice spot, - regards Mark
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Old 12-07-21, 10:02 AM
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Cheers Mark- it comes very 'pre loved' but happy with it.

I reckon we make our own luck in this game!

All the best

Bess
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Old 12-07-21, 10:10 AM
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More likely to be Tartan than black.
Nice.

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Old 12-07-21, 10:42 AM
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To be honest Marc, I thought that too, but the beret I have has a black loose weave fabric 'oblong' in landscape.

All the closest images I could find online appear the same. Perhaps it mirrors their black triangle unit identifier?
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Old 12-07-21, 11:51 AM
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Sean pretty sure I have a picture of one being worn, will have a look when I get home
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Old 12-07-21, 12:09 PM
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Cheers Bob
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Old 12-07-21, 12:17 PM
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2019 Gurkha recruits getting assignments shows some receiving maroon berets with black backing patches.
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Not black but rifle green patch - Gurkhas are rifle regiments and normally wear a rifle green beret. The green patch was originally worn on a maroon beret by parachute trained RGR soldiers (only) when 1st Bn RGR was part of 5th Airborne Brigade in the late 1990s. (The Gurkha Reinforcement Company in 2 PARA in the same time frame wore a maroon beret with the RGR badge but without the backing.) When 1 RGR again took on the Airborne role in 2015 they resurrected the maroon beret with rifle green patch for the whole battalion, not just the paratroopers who had passed P Company.

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Apologies got waylaid by a “Brummie” last night!
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