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Old 10-02-11, 09:52 PM
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The patch on this black beret is the two-blue rhombus ('tank' shape) with large rising sun badge. The two-blue pentagon you illustrate was never issued or worn by the unit (see Glyde no. 544 and page 83).
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Thanks, so like the one I previously posted? That's good.
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Old 13-02-11, 09:15 AM
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Yes, like your previous post. Virtually the only formation left 'standing' by 1945 was 4th Armd Bde, which wore the tank shape patch in regimental colours -- i.e. sky blue over white for 1st Armd Regt, two blues for 2/4th, green over red for 2/6th, green over yellow for 2/9th.

There was an attempt in late 1944 (I think) to make 4th Armd Bde perpetuate the pentagon of the recently disbanded 1st Armd Div in those colours, but it never eventuated and the bde maintained its distinctive 'tank' rhombus but now in the regimental colours listed above instead of the uniform red-based sequence.

This is why the man you show in the photo has to be wearing the two-blue rhombus and not the pentagon. Apologies to any BBF members if this all sounds like gobbledygook, but it's all part and parcel of the wonderfully complicated world of WW2 Australian colour patches!
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