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Posted: Wed 14 Sep, 2005 9:13 pm
by flynn101
Sorry mate but im basing this 'bollocks' on what ive read on this forum and yes the SBS is now tri service hence things like the new capbadge but i read that the SBS are retaining there old royal marine identity by keeping the green beret sorry if ive got anything wrong mate
Posted: Wed 14 Sep, 2005 9:18 pm
by flynn101
Thanks for the info
Posted: Wed 14 Sep, 2005 9:27 pm
by robbiew
thankyou sticky blue we love you....
thanks for the info i guess i should have bothered to look myself though
i was about to honestly...sunglasses !BING!
Posted: Wed 14 Sep, 2005 10:01 pm
by Doc
Oh fark Im going to have to disagree with sticky, no more chews in Pompey for me now
anyone attached to SAS wear the sand beret, like anyone attached to Airborne wear maroon. SF sigs only get SF pay if they pass UKSF selection, I also think they are mega strick in only allowing lads who have passed selection to serve. If SF sigs get into 264 proper and want to goto 22 as a trooper they can only do so for 3 years and then they have to revert back to 264. One of the quirks of Hereford. (This was the case when my mate was there in the mid nineties but maybe different now)
I nearly got sent to Hereford sickbay via 59 for an attachment and got told I'd have to wear the sand lid with naval capbadge, didnt matter though as I didnt go. I also think the figure on the capbadge has a small strip of harry black across its eyes
anyone know what this new units beret colour is going to be?
Royal Sigs
Posted: Wed 14 Sep, 2005 10:37 pm
by Doc
Hmmm, I ponder lonely as a cloud,
I will email my mate now and await a response, being ex-sigs it may take 3 attempts and a week to get a reply
Posted: Sun 18 Sep, 2005 11:44 am
by GD
flynn101 wrote:Just thought this might be helpful
United Kingdom
The colours are as follows:
Khaki — Foot Guards, Household Cavalry, Honourable Artillery Company, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, Royal Anglian Regiment, Green Howards
Light grey — Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Brown — King's Royal Hussars
Black — Royal Tank Regiment
Dark (Rifle) green — Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry, Light Infantry, Royal Green Jackets, Royal Gurkha Rifles
Maroon — Parachute Regiment, other troops serving in airborne role (not necessarily jump qualified)
Beige — Special Air Service
Sky blue — Army Air Corps
Cypress green — Intelligence Corps
Scarlet — Royal Military Police
Green — Adjutant General's Corps
Navy blue — all other Army units (except Scottish and Irish line infantry regiments), Royal Navy, Royal Marines who are not commando-qualified
Commando green — commando-qualified Royal Marines, other commando-qualified troops serving in commando units
RAF blue — Royal Air Force (including RAF Regiment)
Members of the Royal Tank Regiment, Army Air Corps, Parachute Regiment and SAS never wear any other form of uniform headgear except the beret (i.e. they do not wear peaked caps). Troops from other services, regiments or corps on attachment to units with distinctive coloured berets often wear those berets (with their own cap badge). Colonels, brigadiers and generals usually continue to wear the beret of the regiment or corps to which they used to belong with the cap badge distinctive to their rank. The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and Royal Welch Fusiliers wear a coloured feather hackle on the beret.
So whereabouts on your list is this regiment? Note it's a rifle green beret with a very wide silk band around it?
Posted: Sun 18 Sep, 2005 2:52 pm
by Doc
Aint a clue, some paddy unit by the looks of it. Anyway typical perc could have cleaned his beret and had a shave!!!
Posted: Sun 18 Sep, 2005 3:05 pm
by GD
Could this be a phantom regiment which has sprung up cos it ain't on the list.
KRH is 'cherry' btw - not brown.
Posted: Sun 18 Sep, 2005 3:25 pm
by GD
You can spend months establishing the tradtitions of the British amry then you'll come across some twat like me who'll show you a photograph like this one below which will have significant differences in rank insignia, dress, and blow all your theories out of the water.
The beauty of our regimental heritage.
Only one of these is a corporal - the other is a lance corporal. It doesn't take a genius to work out which is which but why? There's another major uniform difference which isn't so easily spotted but can be seen very well here:
There are other differences as well, and every unit you ever come across will have something in contrast to the 'standard' uniform, accoutrements and insignia.
Posted: Sun 18 Sep, 2005 3:39 pm
by GD
The "PP" Cipher is not what it seems. It's really the cypher of Caroline of Ansbach who was married to George II. The "lyre" is an Irish 'Angel Harp' - that is correct.
Posted: Sun 18 Sep, 2005 3:45 pm
by GD
There's another hint of a few differences here:
Bear in mind this is just one regiment you're seeing. Go to a different regiment's website and you'll see other very obvious idiosyncracies.