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#1
09-08-20, 08:45 PM
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Royal Ulster Rifles sides caps
Hi,
Could someone please tell me the reasoning for the blue band on the 2nd cap. Would it be a custom made piece as the first one has a makers stamp and nothing inside 2nd one. Thanks fullsizeoutput_77b7.jpg fullsizeoutput_77ba.jpg fullsizeoutput_77be.jpg fullsizeoutput_77c0.jpg fullsizeoutput_77c1.jpg 
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09-08-20, 08:48 PM
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Could be for the Battalions, 1st Btn. Being one colour 2nd Btn. a different colour. Someone will come along and add more but imagine this may be what it represents, all the best billy
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10-08-20, 06:10 AM
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There was movement between Battalions, skills in a particlar area could be weighted in one Battalion and lacking in the other so trainers poached or for family members to be together if requested this mainly being younger brothers being claimed by an older brother, this happened even when I joined up my brother could have claimed me but He was on a shit posting! Now if he had of been in Hong Kong!! ???
Am going to ask a daft question and one I ought to have asked in the beginning, why have the Royal Ulster Rifles got a side cap? They wore Caubeens and while asking I am assuming Emerald Green, was there other colours? Was there possibly a Black colour (Band) perhaps, this question may answer another's thread, many thanks Billy
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#5
10-08-20, 07:21 AM
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A well known pre D Day photo of Monty inspecting a fully equipped Rifleman of the RUR. Both officers are wearing 'side caps'.
Tim
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