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Old 14-05-21, 06:02 PM
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Hi. I am (slowly) recreating the regular army cap badge display pictured, which is from a 1978 army recruiting brochure, that I have had since I first developed an interest in joining the army while at school! I would however like to expand it to include other badges that I know were being worn at that time which include:

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Royal Armoured Corps
Army Apprentice College?
Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion
Gurkha Transport Regiment
Queens Own Gurkha Signals
Queens Own Gurkha Engineers
2nd King edward V11's Own Gurkha Rifles
6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifless
7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles

Additionally, can anyone tell me if the Army School of Music had their own cap badge at that time, and did Jewish Rabbi's of the Army Chaplins Department have their own star of david version of the cap badge?

Were there any other regular army cap badges worn, not listed?

Interested in any replies as I feel I'll probably get more definative answers than me blundering around blindly searching on Google, but please polite, helpful replies only.

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Tony
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Old 14-05-21, 06:38 PM
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Hi Tony,the music badge would have been the RMSM badge Royal Military School of Music.
There should be a Jewish Chaplains badge although the was only ever 1 or 2 serving at any one time.
There should be the Household Cavalry badge as well as the Life Guards and Blues and Royals.
The Army Apprentices wore the cap badge of their parent corps.
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Old 14-05-21, 07:12 PM
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Hi Mike,cheers that's great, many thanks. Out of curiosity, do you know when the Army Apprentice College badge was worn?

Cheers

Tony
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Old 14-05-21, 07:18 PM
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...no.39 was my first cap badge.... cadets.
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Hi,
Army legal services.
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Old 14-05-21, 08:25 PM
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Hello Tony
I still have one, it was the centre spread in the TV Times I think. From 1976 I think it was,when I first Joined the ACF.
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Similar to this which is actual cap badges on a metal plate. Came from an Army Careers Information Office and said to have been used as a poster format.

This second one is a poster from the early 1980s and shows a few additional badges.

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Army legal services.
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Would it have been "corps" back then rather than "services" ?
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Would it have been "corps" back then rather than "services" ?
I'm pretty sure it was Corps back then, and only just noticed its not on the poster!

Cheers Eddie and Mike.
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It was Army Legal Services from 1948 until 1 November 1978 when it became the Army Legal Corps. Reverted back to Army Legal Services in 1992 when subsumed into the Adjutant General's Corps. There are therefore two different cap badges, similar design with different scroll detail, but the dates of when each was actually worn will probably overlap.

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It was Army Legal Services from 1948 until 1 November 1978 when it became the Army Legal Corps. Reverted back to Army Legal Services in 1992 when subsumed into the Adjutant General's Corps. There are therefore two different cap badges, similar design with different scroll detail, but the dates of when each was actually worn will probably overlap.

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Cheers that's great information, many thanks

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Hi Mike,cheers that's great, many thanks. Out of curiosity, do you know when the Army Apprentice College badge was worn?
There never was an 'Apprentice Collage' badge. From 1947 until 1966 all apprentice tradesmen wore the 'Apprentice School' badge (same as my avatar). In 1966 control of schools passed from the 'Inspector of Boys' Training (Army)' to the respective Corps. Schools were renamed as collages and the respective corps (RE, R Sigs and REME) insignia and uniform adopted.
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There never was an 'Apprentice Collage' badge. From 1947 until 1966 all apprentice tradesmen wore the 'Apprentice School' badge (same as my avatar). In 1966 control of schools passed from the 'Inspector of Boys' Training (Army)' to the respective Corps. Schools were renamed as collages and the respective corps (RE, R Sigs and REME) insignia and uniform adopted.
Cheers, excellent information much appreciated

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Tony,

Do you know when the IJLB badge ceased to be worn, I went to Shorncliffe in September 1980 and Regimental pattern badges were worn so I assume it must have been 78 or 79 ?

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Tony,

Do you know when the IJLB badge ceased to be worn, I went to Shorncliffe in September 1980 and Regimental pattern badges were worn so I assume it must have been 78 or 79 ?

Simon.
Hi Simon. To be honest I dont know for sure? I went to Shorncliffe with the army cadets in 1978 and think it was being worn then, but when I went to Shornciffe in 1981 it was the individual regimental badges!

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