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Old 27-02-24, 01:18 PM
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Can anyone advise me how to identify a division flash on a helmet?
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Old 27-02-24, 01:50 PM
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Old 27-02-24, 02:17 PM
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Image of flash for identification! Thank you
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Old 27-02-24, 03:45 PM
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Hello tanda 56, not my collecting area but those are the colours of the REME , Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers , as I say not positive on that but I’m sure those in the know will confirm correctly.

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Old 27-02-24, 04:10 PM
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hi Gb64, that’s what I thought but the REME flash is red and blue, not blu and red with the yellow stripe!
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Old 27-02-24, 05:59 PM
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Hi, I’m sure REME is Red-yellow- blue ?? I know the flash as you look at it shows blue - yellow-red but the colours are the same I think

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Old 27-02-24, 08:12 PM
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All the REME flashes I have seen are red and blue without the yellow line so I am a bit stuck! Thanks for your input anyway, much appreciated.
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Just red and blue would be RA or RE and definitely not REME

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Old 27-02-24, 09:00 PM
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https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...1&d=1709067466


It must have been this that i was thinking of for the REME, colours round the wrong way compared to your helmet flash but thought id seen them used ?


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Old 27-02-24, 09:22 PM
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All a bit of a mystery!
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Old 27-02-24, 09:26 PM
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Could it be Canadian?

The colours but not orientation match the Royal Montreal Regiment.

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Thanks Mike ( post below) I tried to attach that link but couldn’t!!

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REME helmet

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An example with square 'flash' :

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/helme...ed-mk2-689346/

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Old 28-02-24, 12:23 PM
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Thanks guys, I had a gut feeling that this flash was Canadian, although I will continue my search to identify it!
It’s to a Lt. DJ Sheridan RAOC, out of interest!
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It’s to a Lt. DJ Sheridan RAOC, out of interest!
Could he have been commisioned to the RAOC then been "transferred" when the REME was established ?

Prior to REME's formation, maintenance was the responsibility of several different corps:

: Royal Army Ordnance Corps—weapons and armoured vehicles

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During World War II, the increase in quantity and complexity of equipment exposed the flaws in this system. Pursuant to the recommendation of a Committee on Skilled Men in the Services chaired by William Beveridge, the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers was formed on 1 October 1942.

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