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15-01-22, 10:30 AM
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Port Commando Royal Engineers
I have a circular black patch with the letter P in yellow (it is a repro) which I was told was worn by Port Commando Royal Engineers.
I cannot find any reference to this unit so my question is Did they exist or is it fictional ?? Jerry engr9266
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16-01-22, 07:53 AM
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As there are no replies, the repro P is heading to the ? box.
engr9266
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16-01-22, 09:08 AM
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"Uniformstores" site offers the badge but in gold bullion - but doesn't say what it is.
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18-01-22, 10:53 AM
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The only reference to this badge as being that of the RE Port Commandos is in Major John Waring's Identification Pamphlet No 1 published in the 1970s by the Military Heraldry Society and still available to Society members.
I could find no reference to any such unit in the RE's official history or anywhere else. Still a mystery after some 80 odd years. Jon
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27-01-22, 04:32 PM
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Port Commando Royal Engineers
Hi Jerry, I posted exactly the same question when I first joined the forum over a decade ago, and still don't know the answer? I forget the name of the manufacturer, who produces a lot for reenactors, but he mis identifies some of the insignia he sells! My first ever post was a question about a badge he describes as "Commando Training Loch Eye" in fact it was the insignia for the Special Training Centre Lochaliort, which is a smaller black, white and yellow version of what is now worn by 16 air assault brigade, though it caused some pretty vicious nastiness on the forum at the time I posted it!
Tony
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