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Old 22-08-21, 04:20 PM
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Default 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?

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Old 22-08-21, 05:01 PM
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Dutch Marine Corps????

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Old 22-08-21, 05:06 PM
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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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Old 22-08-21, 05:11 PM
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Yes, the Dutch marines is definitely a tombstone not a large 'teardrop' . .
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Old 22-08-21, 06:13 PM
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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.

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Old 22-08-21, 08:11 PM
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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.

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As did Manchester & Salford.
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Old 22-08-21, 08:38 PM
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It's a strange o e for sure.

Not Naval in some way is it?
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Old 23-08-21, 06:54 AM
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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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Old 23-08-21, 06:58 AM
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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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Old 23-08-21, 07:54 AM
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The large internal stiffener/badge backing is a Canadian (and US) characteristic....
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Old 23-08-21, 12:45 PM
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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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Not like that they dont'!

The RM beret is a simple red tombstone.
I meant with the internal backing. I know they don't have a whacking great tear drop.
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