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Old 19-03-20, 08:37 PM
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Dear all, my other thread didn't make it, only logical, not enough explanation. Here's the second edition. I'm trying to determine the correct identifications of UK coloured wings. A part of my collection is on this picture. Here are the identifications I have at this moment. If they're incorrect, please let me know.
1. Light Infantry
2. Rifle brigade
3. Parachute Regiment officers
4. Junior Para Company
5. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
6. The Cameronians (Scottish Rfiles)
7. Royal Irish Rangers (piper green)
8. 59 Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers
9. Royal Artillery
10. Royal Irish Rangers
11. Intelligence Corps
12. 2 KEO Gurkha Rifles
13. 2 Grenadier Rifles
14. Royal Army Pay Corps (primerose yellow)
15. Royal Navy & Royal Marines
16. Royal Marines
17. Royal Army Dental Corps (emerald green)
18. Light Infantry (maize)
19. Small Arms School (slate grey)
20. Corps of Transport, Light Dragoons, Queens Royal Lancers, Prince of Wales Yorkshire Regiment
21. Catering Corps, Intelligence Corps (grebe grey)
22. Parachute Regiment, Royal Army Veterenary Corps, Kings Royal Hussars, Royal Army Medical Corps (maroon)
23. Army Air Corps (cambridge blue)

Any help is most welcome.

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Old 19-03-20, 08:52 PM
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Alain ,No18 isn't light infantry.
A light infantry No1 or mess dress wing is silver on green
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Old 19-03-20, 08:57 PM
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Makes sense, have just googled their N°1 dress ... and also found a picture of the wing :-). Thanks Mike
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Old 19-03-20, 09:16 PM
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No 4, or something very much like it was worn by the DWR. It was supposedly phased out in the 80s but was still being worn well into the 90s according to a former colleague (I posted pics of his 1 dress cap a while ago) who was still at school in the 80s but wore them on both SDs and woolly pully into the late 90s.
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Old 19-03-20, 09:29 PM
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Could it be that you're mixing it up with the red mess dress? The one shown on my picture is the larger one, for what I think is N°2 dress. I could be wrong however.
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Old 19-03-20, 09:33 PM
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No12 is Kings Royal Rifle Corps
No13 is 2nd Gurkha Rifles
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Old 19-03-20, 10:37 PM
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I have seen 11 described as Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Old 20-03-20, 07:43 AM
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Could it be that you're mixing it up with the red mess dress? The one shown on my picture is the larger one, for what I think is N°2 dress. I could be wrong however.
No Definitely not. The mess dress is gold bullion wire, this is the normal silk thread. Your one is for 2s/SD (and older styles of dress like the woolly pully).
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Old 20-03-20, 08:14 AM
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I have seen 11 described as Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Old 20-03-20, 07:50 PM
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Number 2 is Royal Green Jackets, Alain.
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Old 21-03-20, 12:07 AM
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Please see my previous post regarding number 4:

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...2&postcount=17

A few more comments below:

6 - Not Cameronians as far as I'm aware. Often attributed to LI or London Irish but have seen no hard evidence for either.

8 - Never heard of this attribution before. I have always assumed these were subdued variants of the standard wing. Additional information welcomed.

11 - Not aware of any evidence for common attribution to the Intelligence Corps. Happy to be corrected though. A well padded example also exists on a darker green. These were listed as Rhodesian by Nicholas Morigi, in his catalogue, over 20 years ago. Neither type is Rhodesian.

12 - KRRC.

16 - RAF Tropical (Royal Marines Tropical are light blue and white on tan and Royal Navy dark blue on white)

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Old 21-03-20, 08:35 AM
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Number 11 is not Intelligence Corps. Wings for No1 Dress should be full size on Cypress Green. Wing's for mess dress are smaller in bullion on grey backing possibly as number 21 but privately purchased so many variations.

See https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ictureid=11970

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Old 21-03-20, 01:36 PM
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The wing however has exactly the same backgroundcolour as the shouldertabs you show AND the lightbulb
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Old 21-03-20, 03:55 PM
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The wing however has exactly the same backgroundcolour as the shouldertabs you show AND the lightbulb
If you mean number 11 in the 31 years I served in the Intelligence Corps (1970-2001) I never saw one.

British parachute wings exist in many colour combinations and finishes!

I make no claim that this selection are all genuine, approved or issued.

Tim
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