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Originally Posted by eodmatt

I note that the cap badge is positioned correctly over the left eye.

9/10 Jews and Partisans stated they didn't care.

Originally Posted by Tawahi-50

I don't see a RAF capbadge, but there are a couple that can easily be mistaken for it, given the size of the pic.
No 5 is the nearest looking, I think. But it's The 2nd DG (Bays). Another that looks a bit RAFish is no113 which is the West Indies Regiment

What Regt is no 32, is it something like RAF regiment or some precedent to that??

Originally Posted by taylortaylor

What Regt is no 32, is it something like RAF regiment or some precedent to that??

RAF Officer with Kings Crown

Originally Posted by northern-matelot

Maybe one of you lot could explain, why do some regiments have people wearing shiny/blacked out/cloth beret badges within the same regiments? Do they symbolise any meaning?

Some Regiments now issue darker versions of the cap badge for wear on berets as opposed to the shinier version for wear on the dress cap. On the front page of the Times today is a photo of a member of the Yorkshire regiment wearing the bronzed version with the dull white rose. If he was wearing his dress cap the same badge would be bright gold and silver. The POWRR do the same.
Officers of almost all Regt's have always worn bronze badges on their Service dress.
Some Regt's such as Para's wear black badges on operations. I believe this started in Northern Ireland. REME and RE have also worn black on ops.
Some Regts have had cloth embroidered cap badges made. The Gunners wore them in Northern Ireland, The original POWRR cap badge was embroidered black on geen. I've seen the RLC and the RAMC wear them also. I think the Welsh Guards wore embroidered badges in the Falklands war.

WC

Originally Posted by Without Commitment

Some Regts have had cloth embroidered cap badges made. The Gunners wore them in Northern Ireland, The original POWRR cap badge was embroidered black on geen. I've seen the RLC and the RAMC wear them also. I think the Welsh Guards wore embroidered badges in the Falklands war.

WC

Here's a motley collection of RLC cloth badges. I was at 4 GS Regt and wore the Centre Left badge. 3 CS Regt across the way wore the standard gold metal one. Now I understand it they all wear the shiney coloured metal badge?



Royal Logistic Corps

Originally Posted by Without Commitment

Some Regiments now issue darker versions of the cap badge for wear on berets as opposed to the shinier version for wear on the dress cap. On the front page of the Times today is a photo of a member of the Yorkshire regiment wearing the bronzed version with the dull white rose. If he was wearing his dress cap the same badge would be bright gold and silver. The POWRR do the same.
Officers of almost all Regt's have always worn bronze badges on their Service dress.
Some Regt's such as Para's wear black badges on operations. I believe this started in Northern Ireland. REME and RE have also worn black on ops.
Some Regts have had cloth embroidered cap badges made. The Gunners wore them in Northern Ireland, The original POWRR cap badge was embroidered black on geen. I've seen the RLC and the RAMC wear them also. I think the Welsh Guards wore embroidered badges in the Falklands war.

WC

Don't cloth badges usually come as a privelage of rank?

Royal Signals issued a cloth cap badge in the 70's to wear with the Cap Combat (Cardboard peak for the use of). You washed it once and the peak became a lump and the badge wrinkled up. What a phuqin state!

Originally Posted by Micawber

Scariest, by far....

RAPTC SNCO cap badge

Only scary if you are a fat knacker.