Officers Bullion Brigade Beret Badges

[cavalryman]

Hi, Collecting the Brigade Bullion Beret Badges, and am aware of the following.

Welsh Brigade
Home Counties Brigade
North Irish Brigade
Light Infantry Brigade
Lancastrian Brigade
Wessex Brigade
Yorkshire Brigade
Fusilier Brigade

Any other Bullion Beret Badges in the other Brigades?

Highland Brigade
Lowland Brigade
Green Jackets Brigade
Mercian Brigade
East Anglian Brigade
Forester Brigade

best regards John

[Phillip Herring]

I have one to the Forester Brigade. I will post a pic.
Phil

[grey_green_acorn]

I have an example to the Mercian Brigade worn later by the Mercian Volunteers.

Tim

[Alex Rice]

I don't think the Highland or Lowland wore berets.

[Mike H]

There isnt one for the Green Jackets Brigade nor is there one for the Light Infantry Brigade.
Both are silver plated.
If the Light Infantry Brigade one you refer to has the red.backing,then it isnt Brigade its Regiment and to Durham ACF.

[cavalryman]

Hi Phil & Tim thanks for the confirmations on those two,

Mike thanks for confirming the Light Infantry Brigade badge is actually just

Light Infantry (red backing) and that the Green Jackets Brigade never wore one.

Alex i should've known that, uncle was an ex Scottish Piper!

So that just leaves the East Anglian Brigade...anyone?

Thanks

Best regards John

[JerryBB]

Any chance of seeing the Welsh Brigade bullion badge?

Thanks

Jerry

Originally Posted by cavalryman

Hi, Collecting the Brigade Bullion Beret Badges, and am aware of the following.

Welsh Brigade
Home Counties Brigade
North Irish Brigade
Light Infantry Brigade
Lancastrian Brigade
Wessex Brigade
Yorkshire Brigade
Fusilier Brigade

Any other Bullion Beret Badges in the other Brigades?

Highland Brigade
Lowland Brigade
Green Jackets Brigade
Mercian Brigade
East Anglian Brigade
Forester Brigade

best regards John

[grey_green_acorn]

Welsh Brigade and worn into the early 1970s by the RRW until introduction of the larger type POW feathers.

Tim

[JerryBB]

Originally Posted by grey_green_acorn

Welsh Brigade and worn into the early 1970s by the RRW until introduction of the larger type POW feathers.

Tim

thanks Tim, I asked because I am not sure I ever fully understood this example I own.

[Toby Purcell]

Originally Posted by JerryBB

thanks Tim, I asked because I am not sure I ever fully understood this example I own.

The red backing isn’t right for the Welsh Brigade. That’s an unusual example Jerry as you have implied. The 2nd Gurkha Rifles wore a similar, oft nicknamed “cricket stumps” Prince of Wales feathers on a scarlet background, but in black metal. I wonder if your badge has a civilian application. That can be a stumbling block with emblems that are not exclusively military.

[cavalryman]

Hi Andrew, Thanks for posting the photo of the East Anglian Brigade Badge,

might not be the easyist task finding some of them.

Best regards John

[eddie]

Originally Posted by JerryBB

thanks Tim, I asked because I am not sure I ever fully understood this example I own.

Hi Jerry,
Here’s my one with a green backing, which I thought was a brigade badge for the swb and your red backing the Welch regiment, I’m not 100% sure. (Had my one off the co when in army cadet’s early 80s).
Dave

[Toby Purcell]

Originally Posted by eddie

Hi Jerry,
Here’s my one with a green backing, which I thought was a brigade badge for the swb and your red backing the Welch regiment, I’m not 100% sure. (Had my one off the co when in army cadet’s early 80s).
Dave

That’s an interesting thought Dave. It would make sense as the RWF backing was a very dark Navy blue when worn on officers, scarlet banded forage caps. Unfortunately I’ve never seen colour photographs of the SWB and WELCH caps with the badges fitted, they seem to always be in black and white. It’s frustrating. I think you might well have cracked it though. Of course the officers forage cap badges of the two non Royal regiments were in frosted white metal rather than bullion, so subject badges would only have been worn on berets by those two regiments, whereas RWF officers wore them on both, cap and beret. I’m puzzled by the latter though as since ww2 the usual backing for officers badges had been scarlet, so for the brigade beret badge dark blue, if adopted on that headdress, would’ve been a departure. More research needed.

If correct, the backings would have been in accordance with associated facing colours:
RWF - Dark blue.
SWB - Grass green.
WELCH - Red (the Welch Regt wore white facings, but probably chose red as that had been the 41st Regiment’s facing colour in 1815, and as a nod to the crimson collars of the officers mess kit over impractical white. It had also been a colour within the regiment’s ribbon/flash as used on tropical helmets, etc. of white, red, green. These three colours represented the 1881 facings, the old 41st facings and the 69th facings.

[JerryBB]

Originally Posted by eddie

Hi Jerry,
Here’s my one with a green backing, which I thought was a brigade badge for the swb and your red backing the Welch regiment, I’m not 100% sure. (Had my one off the co when in army cadet’s early 80s).
Dave

Thanks Dave, that makes sense.

Jerry

[Pixie]

I haven’t seen an embroidered East Anglian Regt, but I can definitely show a small silver & gilt version alongside the larger one. Apologies for the lighting, not helped by tarnishing.

Rachael