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RRF Badges
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I would be grateful for your help with these please. I know nothing about the big one,13.8 x 10.5 cms. Obtained, I think, early in 1960, the "lugs" are 1.8 cms approx. Could this have been intended for the full dress busby and then abandoned in favour of the more normal size? Alternatively could it have been some sort of cross belt plate? The small plastic one is also a mystery to me. I assume made and worn in NI at some time. Any help would be very welcome Best wishes Gordon Apologies if this is off thread. |
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Now here is the mystery part - my large grenade(same as yours) has a black felt backing to it and therefore I can only summise that it was removed from the head dress and was then worn on the apron of the pioneers. The plastic badge could be bought through Bn PRI shop's, the originals having soft metal blades. I got mine from the 5th Bn, RRF when they first came out. It was to replace those painted black for NI service. A new black plastic version has begun to appear, but I need to find out whether or not it has been taken into service. |
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The plastic one is the 2nd type- the first had a spigot and washer to attach it, the second these brass strip and a pin and the third a pair of fold over alumimium strips. They date from 1970s and are no longer used as there is no requirement for black badges anymore as helmets are the norm.
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Hi Graham
Many thanks for your reply. somewhere in the back of my mind I had the impression that they were Fusilier Busbies. Obviously not so. The fixing on the plastic badge is an "unbendable" brass strip, attached with araldite or something similar, with two holes for the pin. Gordon |
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Sorry we crossed. Many thanks for your reply. Best wishes Gordon |
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"Manui dat cognitio vires - Knowledge gives strength to the arm" "Better to know it but not need it than to need it and not know it!" "Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest." |
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Hi Tim
Many thanks, only two to find then! Gordon |
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Beret badge
Y'all,
While I was in Kuwait, I happened upon a soldier wearing the beret and hackle of Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. The other officers in the briefing were asking around what it was and what the story was. Being a collector I was elected to ask about the beret and hackle. I tried to trade him for the beret, hackle and all but I had no Jack Daniels (John to those of us who know him well) to close the deal. My question is, which of these badges, since my mind is a little cloudy since 2007, are currently worn on the beret. I may have missed it throughout the thread so if so, my apologies. Tanks, Wiley Winter Memphis, Tennessee
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The regiment was created in 1968 by the amalgamation of the R.N.F., Royal Fusiliers, *Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers and Lancashire Fusiliers. The RRF combined various parts of the old regimental badges(R.N.F., R.F. and L.F.) into the new badge and adopted the hackle of the R.N.F.. The new regimental buttons were those of the Warwicks. *The R. Warwickshire Regt were converted to Fusiliers purely for amalgamation purposes. |
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Thanks Graham.
Again, I'm just getting into this line and I'm finding the histories of the units fascinating. But, then, that's why we are here; to learn and be fascinated. Thanks again, Wiley
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Wiley P. Winter, MCSE Major, Armor USAR (RET) |
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