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23-11-14, 02:09 PM
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The Cameronians - Scottish Rifles
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23-11-14, 04:44 PM
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Unless it's a commando beret?
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24-11-14, 08:41 AM
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Hello
I am not sure that this chap is wearing a beret. It looks more like the General Service Cap introduced in 1943. There is more "height" on one side with this cap whereas the beret tends to be flatter all round. Regards Roger
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24-11-14, 08:57 AM
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Not 100% myself, I thought if Commando they would have stuck with the beret and not a GSC ? and is this the early type of battle dress at the start of the war? hope someone in the know can put us right
 Gerard
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24-11-14, 12:56 PM
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I would agree it's a GSC but I'd still say commando. Not airborne because they wore the maroon berets designed by Daphne du Maurier didn't they? Then again there was a period BEFORE the commandos and airborne got their own distinctive berets. The GSC could well have filled in during that time.
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24-11-14, 03:07 PM
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A GSC is of the same material/colour as BD serge, the cap in the picture is of a darker material.
I'm convinced it is a beret, you can clearly make out the shiney leather sweatband around the middle of the wearer's face.
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24-11-14, 03:11 PM
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Quote:
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam - I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
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24-11-14, 03:27 PM
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Here are pictures (from left to right) of a green, maroon and black beret made into B&W. It would seem that the beret in post#1 is probably not a black beret, but it is impossible to say if it's green or maroon.
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24-11-14, 04:12 PM
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Just as a matter of interest the father of a man who lives close to me was in the Commandos, the son has a lot of his fathers Commando items including the thing that I found most fascinating, a green beret with a Black Watch cap badge.
The man joined the Commandos from the Cheshire Police and had no contact whatsoever with the Black Watch but that would have been the unit he would have been "returned " to if he had not made the grade in the Commandos. Inside the beret there is a piece of metal ( not sure where it originally came from-might have been from a tin can ) behind the cap badge to keep it upright on the beret. You wonder what people would think of the beret and badge if they didn't know the story behind it. P.B.
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24-11-14, 10:09 PM
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I thank you all for the discussion and helpful comments. This man is my father who was with No 4 Commando for most of the war. The mystery is that his enlisted regiment was the Welch, yet he appears in several later, ie after 1944 photographs with this cap badge of the Cameronians. There is nothing on his military record stating that he changed regiment.
I know this website does not strictly provide advice of this kind, but any comments would be helpful. Again with appreciation
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