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 Wessex Yeomanry 50mm Black Square Felt Badge Backing
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Red Tombstone Felt Badge Backing
Royal Yeomanry 50mm Green Square Felt Badge Backing
Royal Yorkshire Regiment Dark Green Rectangle Felt Badge Backing
Scots Guards Officers Beret Badge Backing (50x63mm) Royal Stuart Tartan Ribbon Badge Backing
Scots Guards Red / Purple Cut-Feather Bonnet Plume Pipers - V.Large Feather Hackle or Plume
Scottish And North Irish Yeomanry (Badge-Shape) New Brunswick Green Felt Badge Backing
Scottish Yeomanry - 1992-1999 Black Badge-Shape Felt Badge Backing
Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-Shire Buffs) (75mm Square Mackenzie (diagonal) Tartan Badge Backing
Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) Lincoln Green Square Felt Badge Backing
Silver Rosette For Undress Medal Ribbon Silver-plated
Somerset Light Infantry - Rifle Green Rectangle Felt Badge Backing
South Lancashire Regiment (Prince Of Wales's Vols) Red Oval Insert Felt Badge Backing
South Staffordshire Regiment Brown Oval Holland Linen Badge Backing
St.George's Day Roses - Royal Regiment Of Fusiliers Red And White Nylon
Staffordshire Regiment Final Pattern Hessian Badge Backing
Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) Red Triangle Felt Badge Backing
Sword Knot - Royal Irish Regiment Officers - Silver Shamrock Weave Bullion wire-embroidered
Tayforth Universities Officers Training Corps Hunting Stewart Tartan Badge Backing
The Royal Welsh Grass Green 45mm Sq. Felt Badge Backing
Toronto Scottish Hodden Grey Tartan Badge Backing
Transvaal Scottish Regiment (South Africa) Murray Of Atholl Tartan Badge Backing
US Air Force Tactical Air Control Party - USAF TACP Beret Shield Embroidered Badge Backing
US Army - 104th Military Intelligence Battalion LRSD Parachute Badge Oval Embroidered Parachute jump wings or badge
US Army - 187th Regimental Combat Team (Airborne) Parachute Badge Oval Embroidered Parachute jump wings or badge
US Army - 1st Corps Support Command XVIII Corps Parachute Badge Oval Embroidered Parachute jump wings or badge
US Army - 307th Medical Battalion (Airborne) Parachute Badge Oval Embroidered Parachute jump wings or badge
US Army - 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment Parachute Badge Oval Embroidered Parachute jump wings or badge
US Army - 509th Airborne Infantry Regiment Parachute Badge Oval Embroidered Parachute jump wings or badge
US Army - 88th AAA Battalion (Airborne) Parachute Badge Oval Embroidered Parachute jump wings or badge