HMS Undaunted (D-Day Destroyer Converted To Frigate) Cap-Tally 1944-1974...
HMS Dundas (Blackwood Class Anti-Aircraft Frigate) Cap-Tally 1956-1983...
HMS Duncan (Blackwood Class Anti-Aircraft Frigate) Cap-Tally 1958-1984...
HMS Racehorse (WW2 R-Class Destroyer) Cap-Tally 1942-1949 Woven Naval...
HMS Troubridge (WW2 Destroyer Converted To Frigate) Cap-Tally 1943-1969...
HMS Fisguard (Shore Establishment - Torpoint) Cap-Tally Pre-1983 Woven...
HMS Ulster (WW2 Destroyer Converted To Frigate) Cap-Tally 1943-1977...
HMS Puma (Leopard Class Anti-Aircraft Frigate) Cap-Tally 1957-1972 Woven...
Many military units wear coloured backings behind their cap badges - mainly on berets. Most Scottish units wear tartan patches on Tam o'Shanters.
Accoutrements such as plumes are made of horse-hair and used on Bearskin caps and Busby hats. Hackles are made from coloured feathers and worn behind the c...
Many military units wear coloured backings behind their cap badges - mainly on berets. Most Scottish units wear tartan patches on Tam o'Shanters.
Accoutrements such as plumes are made of horse-hair and used on Bearskin caps and Busby hats. Hackles are made from coloured feathers and worn behind the cap badge.
Not only do these improve the display of a collection, the embellishments are collectable items in their own right, as many are linked to events in the history of the unit. Most backings are hard to obtain as the Melton cloth and tartans are made from top quality military-specification materials, not normally available from retail shops.
A superb book on this subject is -
Badge Backings and Special Embellishments of the British Army. ISBN 0951434209: published in 1992 by the UDR Benevolent Fund.
A superb unique reference work - the only book on this subject. Many pictures and information direct from the regiments concerned.
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King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment Red Rectangle Felt Badge Backing
King's Own Royal Border Regiment Red Diamond Felt Badge Backing
King's Own Scottish Borderers (75mm Square) Leslie Tartan Tartan Badge Backing
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Dark Green Rectangle Felt Badge Backing
King's Regiment Beret Badge Backing 45mm Red Square Felt Badge Backing
King's Regiment Other Ranks Side-Hat Badge Backing Dark Green Disc Felt Badge Backing
King's Regiment: 6th (Rifle) Battalion Red Oval Felt Badge Backing
King's Royal Rifle Corps Red Badge Outline Felt Badge Backing
King's Shropshire Light Infantry - Rifle Green 2 Inch Square Felt Badge Backing
Lancashire Fusiliers Yellow Horsehair Plume For Fusilier Bearskin Hackle or Plume
Lancastrian Brigade: 3rd Battalion (Lancashire PWV) 45mm Yellow Diamond Felt Badge Backing
Lanyard - Navy Blue Macrame-Knotted Cord
Light Dragoons (formed From 13/18 RH & 15/19 KRH) Red Badge-Shape Felt Badge Backing
Light Infantry Band Large Green Cut-Feather Plume Warrant Officers Feather Hackle or Plume
Liverpool University Officers Training Corps 45mm Red Square Felt Badge Backing
Manchester & Salford Universities OTC 45mm Red Square Felt Badge Backing
Manchester Regiment Dark Green Diamond Felt Badge Backing
Mercian Regiment Lincoln Green Felt Badge Backing
Middlesex Regiment Maroon / Yellow Felt Badge Backing
Minden Roses - Royal Anglian Regiment / RRF Red And Yellow Nylon
New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Onward) Black Diamond Felt Badge Backing
North Staffordshire Regiment 75mm Black Square Felt Badge Backing
Northamptonshire Regiment - Black 2 Inch Diameter Disc Felt Badge Backing
Northamptonshire Yeomanry - 1st Regiment 45mm Blue Disc Felt Badge Backing
Northamptonshire Yeomanry - 2nd Regiment (WW2) Blue Oval Insert Felt Badge Backing
Officers Rank Star Backcloth - KRRC / 2nd Gurkhas Red - 25mm Sides Felt Badge Backing
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry - Green 2 Inch Diameter Disc Felt Badge Backing
Parachute Regiment - 15th Battalion (57mm Diamond) Hunting Stewart Tartan Badge Backing
Parachute Regiment - Junior Parachute Company Blue Oval Plastic Badge Backing