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Old 05-04-21, 07:51 PM
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But the Royal Army Clothing Department was abolished in 1933. Also a beret is a cap but not a hat.

The current issue is still a cap badge!

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Old 06-04-21, 08:34 AM
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Touche Tim

Indeed the Tab is still on!

The info is from Oliver Locks book British Airborne Insignia

But would a Beret be referred to as a cap?

https://www.bon-clic-bon-genre.eu/co...h-berets_0.htm

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I'd be rather surprised if that term was in popular usage during the period in which the badges in this thread were actually worn, as far as I an aware, it was not.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the earliest evidence of the term being used was in a 1972 novel by Marshall Pugh titled Murmur of Mutiny about British paratroopers based in the Middle East.

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They found it difficult enough to accept officers of other regiments wearing the conventional caps which they called crap-hats.

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Old 06-04-21, 10:20 AM
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I always thought crap hat, grunt etc were terms the British picked up from the American forces or films post WWII, maybe Vietnam era.

"Murmur of Mutiny", I remember reading that way back in the 70's., and a sequel "A Dream of Treason".
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary the earliest evidence of the term being used was in a 1972 novel by Marshall Pugh titled Murmur of Mutiny about British paratroopers based in the Middle East.




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It was always a term used with great affection from an old work mate of mine who was in the Paras in the 50’s , said with love and affection about most ,but with special sentiment when talking about the Royal Marines

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It was always a term used with great affection from an old work mate of mine who was in the Paras in the 50’s , said with love and affection about most ,but with special sentiment when talking about the Royal Marines

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My Para Reg 'mates' always referred to me as a cabbage hat - but then I jumped out of planes more than most of them...
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Old 06-04-21, 03:09 PM
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The infantry battalion I was in back in the 70's used the term "cabbage heads" as a nickname for RM.

A grandfather who was in the RN 1919 - 45 apparently referred to Marines as "Mary-Annes", a nickname I've never heard used by anyone else.
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