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Help with Cap Badge ID

Posted: Mon 16 Mar, 2009 10:56 pm
by tom163
I wonder if anyone could help me, I have got this picture of a friend in training but I have no idea what regiment it is. I was told its part of the Army but the picture is very small so need someone who can id it from just a outline.

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Thanks
Tom

Posted: Mon 16 Mar, 2009 11:22 pm
by Tab
There is a little black dot on the screen, is this badge or is it just a full stop

Posted: Mon 16 Mar, 2009 11:30 pm
by tom163
Hahaha its definitly a badge just a really really small one. Thats the only picture I have. Any help would be aprishiated.

Posted: Mon 16 Mar, 2009 11:38 pm
by insushin
tom163 wrote:Hahaha its definitly a badge just a really really small one. Thats the only picture I have. Any help would be aprishiated.
'appreciated'

If its a friend can't you ask the friend which regiment it is?

Posted: Mon 16 Mar, 2009 11:42 pm
by tom163
insushin wrote:
tom163 wrote:Hahaha its definitly a badge just a really really small one. Thats the only picture I have. Any help would be aprishiated.
'appreciated'

If its a friend can't you ask the friend which regiment it is?
No can do, he is hardly available to talk since in training and I aint waiting 4 months till he passes out.

Posted: Mon 16 Mar, 2009 11:58 pm
by sportbilly42
It's a shiite photo but it's Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

"The cap badge features an eagle, which represents the French Imperial Eagle that was captured by the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo, from the French 45th Regiment of Foot. It is always worn with a black backing in mourning for Tsar Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, who was their Colonel-in-Chief at the time of his murder. The cap badge also has the crossed carbines of the 3rd Carabiniers at the rear of the eagle." (Wiki)

http://www.army.mod.uk/armoured/regiments/1629.aspx

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(Where do I collect my prize?)

Posted: Tue 17 Mar, 2009 12:13 am
by tom163
Thanks for the help Sportsbilly but was looking through some more pictures and came across a bit clearer one and unfortunatly it isn't the same one you posted. Here it is-

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Any better idea now?


Thanks alot
Tom

Posted: Tue 17 Mar, 2009 12:48 am
by sportbilly42
tom163 wrote: Image
Now you're being ridiculous.... It's a fekin black PARACHUTE.....

Is your mate in the cadets....? Is he a walt? Is this a 'side-on shot' or does he like wearing his cap badge over what is presumably his right EAR??

Haven't got a clue from these crap photos... The first black splodge you posted looked like it could have been the Scots Dragoon Guards eagle (sort of ..... if you squinted...)

Posted: Tue 17 Mar, 2009 5:06 pm
by tom163
sportbilly42 wrote:
tom163 wrote: Image
Now you're being ridiculous.... It's a fekin black PARACHUTE.....

Is your mate in the cadets....? Is he a walt? Is this a 'side-on shot' or does he like wearing his cap badge over what is presumably his right EAR??

Haven't got a clue from these crap photos... The first black splodge you posted looked like it could have been the Scots Dragoon Guards eagle (sort of ..... if you squinted...)
Black Parachute????

:lol: No he is in Cattrick at the minute and that picture with the beret at a wierd angle was just a shot of him relaxing with it thrown over his head. Only got a few pictures nothing decent.

Posted: Tue 17 Mar, 2009 7:58 pm
by Fusilier
Since he is your mate. Why not just ask him? Or does he not know? :-? :roll:

Posted: Tue 17 Mar, 2009 8:14 pm
by tom163
Fusilier wrote:Since he is your mate. Why not just ask him? Or does he not know? :-? :roll:
As said above he did'nt take his mobile and is hardly on MSN due to training.

Posted: Wed 18 Mar, 2009 1:41 pm
by Fusilier
As said above he did'nt take his mobile and is hardly on MSN due to training.

They will have phones on the camp for him to use and writing equipment for mail, give that a go. You sound like the best of mates. :lol:


I agree that it looks like the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards or the Kings Royal Hussars. Have you never talked about what he was going to do or is doing. Did he talk about driving tanks or armour etc?


By the way it looks like a crap beret, more like Frank Spencer. :lol:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_ ... and_Greys)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Royal_Hussars

Posted: Wed 18 Mar, 2009 5:15 pm
by tom163
Not a 'best' mate just a lad I knew through school and talked to every so often. Anyway lets leave it now.


Cheers for the help.

Edited: Spelling.

Posted: Thu 19 Mar, 2009 12:38 am
by gunner75
haha roger that on the Frank Spencer hat! Its either that or a helicopter landing pad.... :D