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04-02-20, 05:21 PM
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Modern Badges - Officer's Cap Badges with Sliders
This thread https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=77133 requested identification on a 'modern' Duke of Wellington's Regiment officer's cap badge with a slider marked FIRMIN
It raised further posts about the validity of 'modern' officers' cap badges fitted with sliders. Here are some examples. Produced since the early 1990s some are/were issued for 'all ranks' but of reasonably high quality. QLR and PWO now obsolete. Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked FIRMIN Duke of Lancaster's Regiment NSN 8455-99-968-4594 marked <>FIRMIN<> Queen's Lancashire Regiment NSN 8455-99-147-5061 marked SM in rectangle (Shaw Munster) Yorkshire Regiment (bronze for beret) NSN 8455-99-845-9094 marked LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD Yorkshire Regiment (for cap) NSN 8455-99-551-3763 marked (badly) LONDON BADGE & BUTTON CO LTD Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire NSN 8455-99-869-5601 marked FIRMIN Tim
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