62nd (The Wiltshire) Regiment Of Foot - For Leggings 9.5mm - 1830-1855...
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...
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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Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment Large Beret Triangle Felt Badge Backing
Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment No.1 Cap Red Square Felt Badge Backing
Royal Gurkha Rifles (57mm Square Worn On Felt Hat) Hunting Stewart Tartan Badge Backing
Royal Gurkha Rifles (For 16 Brigade Maroon Beret) Rifle Green Rectangl Felt Badge Backing
Royal Hussars & King's Royal Hussars Crimson Dome-Shape Felt Badge Backing
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Broad Red Triangle Felt Badge Backing
Royal Irish Fusiliers Green Triangle Felt Badge Backing
Royal Irish Rangers/ Regiment - Large Green Shamrock For Piper's Kilt Felt Badge Backing
Royal Irish Regiment (For 16 Bde Maroon Beret) Rifle Green Rectangl Felt Badge Backing
Royal Irish Regiment Band Music Pouch Badge Sphinx / Bugle- Cast Chrome-plated Musician, piper, drummer or bugler insignia
Royal Leicestershire Regiment Green Tombstone Felt Badge Backing
Royal Lincolnshire Regiment Red / Blue Rectangle Felt Badge Backing
Royal Logistic Corps: 158 (Royal Anglian) Transport Black Tombstone Felt Badge Backing
Royal Marines Band Pouch Badge Per Mare Per Terram Brass KC. Marines or Commando insignia
Royal Marines Band, Recruits & Cadets Red Tombstone Felt Badge Backing
Royal Mercian And Lancastrian Yeomanry Grey Badge-Shape Felt Badge Backing
Royal Regiment Of Scotland Tartan Badge Backing
Royal Regiment Of Wales Grass Green 45mm Sq. Felt Badge Backing
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) Tartan + Green Oval 2nd Battalion Tartan Badge Backing
Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) Tartan + Red Insert 1st Battalion Tartan Badge Backing
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Officers Black Badge-Shape Felt Badge Backing
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Other Ranks 50mm Black Square Felt Badge Backing
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards NCO Arm Badge Backing Black Rectangle Felt Badge Backing
Royal Scots Fusiliers (Pre-1948 - 75mm Square) Government Tartan 1 Tartan Badge Backing
Royal Signals: 70 (Essex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron Red Felt Badge Backing
Royal Signals: 94 (Berkshire Yeomanry) Signal Sqn Royal Blue Felt Badge Backing
Royal Ulster Rifles: 1st (Airborne) Bn: Rifle Green 2 Inch Diameter Disc Felt Badge Backing
Royal Ulster Rifles: 2nd Battalion Rifle Green Rectangl Felt Badge Backing
Royal Welch Fusiliers Flash (5 Long Black Ribbons For Back Of Collar) Braid
Royal Welch Fusiliers Flash (5 Short Black Ribbons For Back Of Collar) Braid