Attaching a lug badge to a beret.

[hagwalther]

Hi Guys,

Can someone show me the inside of a beret that is designed to be used with a badge that has lugs such as the Royal Tank Regiment badge.

Thanks !!!

Regards

Chris

Hi
Normaly the beret has a piece of leather inside with a couple of holes to accomadate the luged badge failing this a piece of stiff card or plastic
Blizzard

[Cardiffbloke]

In QDG we used to cut a circle out of the plastic spacers that came with MG ammo boxes.

[Alan O]

Chris,

I don't think I have ever seen a British beret actaully designed for use with a lugged badge. They are all made assuming that a slidered badge will be attached; generally with a leather backing strip to receive the slider. As stated above the soldiery often improvise a stiff backing. (or in the case of the para regt just stick it in the wrong place anyway and wear it like a flat cap......)

Alan

[54Bty]

Originally Posted by Alan Owen

Chris,

(or in the case of the para regt just stick it in the wrong place anyway and wear it like a flat cap......)

Alan

Nice one Alan.

[hagwalther]

Originally Posted by 54Bty

Nice one Alan.

I think this is a modern trend. I always remember members of the Parachute Regiment in the 1970's wearing the badge in a uniform and correct manner instead of looking like members of the cast of the Muppet Show.

No doubt standards are slipping.

This should rattle a few chains if nothing else....

Regards Chris

PS Alan and others - thanks for the Beret information - needed to see if lugged badges were issued with different berets from slider ones.

[wright241]

Originally Posted by Alan Owen

Chris,

I don't think I have ever seen a British beret actaully designed for use with a lugged badge. They are all made assuming that a slidered badge will be attached; generally with a leather backing strip to receive the slider. As stated above the soldiery often improvise a stiff backing. (or in the case of the para regt just stick it in the wrong place anyway and wear it like a flat cap......)

Alan

Alan,
Ref the comment about lugged or not lugged berets. I am not sure whether this particular thread has now expired or not, but I have just spent 2 days in deepest Somerset and managed to get an ex-RM Commando officer to show me his mid-1970's issued Royal Marine berets.
They were both made in the UK and also have the leather piece inside the beret with 2 lug holes provided (there is no sign of a slider mounting) - for the main part of the RM badge - he cannot remember whether he had to make the additional upper 2 holes for the separate crown lugs. Whether this was specially done for the RM's he didn't know. On examining the leather patch, they 2 upper "holes" do appear to be "professionally" done rather than with a pointed instrument... If you want me to post pics, let me know. As an aside, when he was on NI tours, he bent the lugs on the separate crown up (i.e. the badge goes down), so that the crown was closer to the main badge and didn't identify him as an officer to snipers etc. This habit appeared to be fairly common practice.
rgds, david

[Unknownsoldier]

I was told by a couple of ex lot friends (ex forces in general) that they used ice cream tubs, and other assorted hardish plastics to make their badges stay properly in place, with one ex-para mentioning the same method but commenting his was almost a squashed oval, so the beret sat properly too.

Tom