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Unknown beret
Guys, can anyone identify this Compton Webb blue beret for me? It has an elaborate sewn in red backing and eyelet loops for 'badge lugs'.
I suspect either not British military or foreign? Regards all Bess |
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Dutch Marine Corps????
Tim
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The image in post 2 shows a blue beret with a tombstone rather than a Teardrop.
I have a beret as per post 1 that I've had for years and not identified. I think it's a King's, but I'm not sure, it may be a Compton. |
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Yes, the Dutch marines is definitely a tombstone not a large 'teardrop' . .
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Also it is sized 7 1/4 so not metric ???
King’s and Liverpool UOTC used a red square badge backing. Tim
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As did Manchester & Salford.
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It's a strange o e for sure.
Not Naval in some way is it? |
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Those eyes seem very wide so my first thought, with the shape, was an artillery connection for a gun badge.
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When I first got my beret of that type I wondered if it was Canadian, (thinking of artillery because of the width of the teardrop and of the eyelets in it) as I'd read somewhere that at one time Canadian berets had teardrop badge backings, but I've never seen any other reference to that.
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The large internal stiffener/badge backing is a Canadian (and US) characteristic....
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And RN/RM I believe, use them.
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Not like that they dont'!
The RM beret is a simple red tombstone. |
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I meant with the internal backing. I know they don't have a whacking great tear drop.
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