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Old 10-01-19, 10:54 AM
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An example of the 14th/20th Hussars cloth beret badge

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King's Royal Hussars cloth beret badge - possibly only worn by affiliated Army Cadet Force Detachments??

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Gents,

this incorrect facing eagle on the anodised 14/20 Hussars cap badge is somewhat of an anomaly obviously. They are found made gold with painted black and are made by Firmin stamped FIRMIN LONDON on the slider in the early small font.

Firstly this badge is not made in error using the 6th Gurkha Rifles arm badge as these come in 2 die variations, neither of which are the die used on this cap badge. So it appears to have its own die. Curious.

I have the colour/year variations in my notes as the follows:-

1964 - 1969 - gold anodised (found made with slider markings - Smith & Wright, Firmin London, Dowler Birmingham and a blank slidered example.

1969 - 1979 - black and gold, manufactured this way showing - Dowler Birmingham, Gaunt Birmingham, Firmin.London, LB&B and a blank slidered example (however many of the earlier gold ones were touch painted in black to conform to the new direction and not waste existing gold badges one would assume).

1979 - 1984 - cloth beret badge - although no doubt the anodised cap badge worn in the service cap.



From 1984 until amalgamation the regular black and gold beret badge resumed use.

Clearly there must variations on the above and those who wore this badge will doubtless have better knowledge of what was actually worn.

I'm sure I saw 14/20 Hussars in Germany at the back end of the 1980's and fairly sure (certainly on exercise) I saw the cloth 'Ulster' being worn in the beret.


Again chaps, happy to be corrected.

Regards all and best wishes for 2019


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G'day Bess

Thanks for sharing this great information, I have printed it out and added it to my reference file.

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The large beret badge hawks I saw KRH wearing in Bosnia 1999/2000 were a dull, unpolished bronze colour (as opposed to an OSD finish) , I thought that they were blackened ones as per this one that the finish had worn or been deliberately rubbed off. I tried to scrounge one but failed.
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A cloth beret badge, slightly different to the one shown in post no. 16.
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