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HAC beret badge clarity s'il vous plaît
I've put a HAC beret badge in the database. According to K&K these are HAC Infantry officers badges - but another source tells me they were worn (only?) in training by HAC 'gunners' and produced at 'regimental expense'.
anyone have the definitive answer?
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The "Short Arms" is worn on the beret by all members of the HAC, with a black oval backing.
Marc
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Copied from a wiki page, saves typing, hope this helps...
BERETS The HAC wear a khaki beret with the HAC's cap badge ("short arms") in white metal on a black backing. Officers and warrant officers wear an embroidered cloth version of the same badge. The Corps of Drums and Regimental Band wear the HAC infantry grenade on a blue red blue backing, which is superficially identical to that of the Grenadier Guards. From July 2008, members of 4/73 (Sphinx) Special OP Battery, part of 5th Regiment Royal Artillery, the HACs paired regular regiment, adopted the khaki beret to mark their close working relationship. On the forage cap, the HAC infantry grenade (white metal) is worn by junior ranks of all subunits of the regiment. Sergeants and Warrant Officers wear a different version of the grenade, which has the letters HAC in brass on the ball of the grenade. Officers wear an embroidered silver grenade on their forage caps in No 1 Dress (Infantry) and on the Service Dress forage cap but when in No 1 Dress (Gunner) they wear the HAC Artillery cap badge. The latter is similar to that of the Royal Artillery but with "HAC" and "Arma Pacis Fulcra" replacing "Ubique" and "Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt. The Para Gunners of A (1st City of London) Battery HAC wear the short arms badge, and drummers the grenade badge, on the maroon beret on completion of P Company. Cheers, Chris |
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No help, but here's the officer's beret bullion
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From at least as early as 1962, C Bty HAC wore the 'short arms' on a scarlet oval on the blue beret.
From a colour photograph in Action Front: A History of 'C' Battery HAC in War and Peace, by James Colquhoun. Keith |
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Wonderful. I must be misunderstanding what K&K are intending or they are wrong. It did seem 'odd'. I'll just leave it simply 'Honourable Artillery Company Beret Badge' and add the embroidered version to that page when one comes along... Professor Charles Thomas (the late) has a load of nonsense too regarding that badge in the photos of his collection
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