General Service Corps? cap badge ID

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  1. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    not with collar dogs surely?
     
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  3. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    No idea....The uniform is a hot weather/tropical dress and didn't think the GSC served overseas. I'll dig out my cap badge book.
     
  4. Trux

    Trux 21 AG

    Royal Marines.

    Mike
     
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  5. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Any other suggestions? Anyone ? :unsure:
     
  6. Mr Jinks

    Mr Jinks Bit of a Cad

    That was my thoughts too ,but those collar dogs? They are a bit hard to make out but that one on the left looks like a bugle horn? RMLI?

    Kyle
     
  7. Trux

    Trux 21 AG

    I have shown this picture to someone who knows more about uniform matters than I. His thoughts are that the dark coloured hat denotes light infantry or rifles. The light infantry is confirmed by the bugle collar dogs and the dark coloured lanyard worn round the neck. This was a whistle lanyard worn by officers and NCOs. Period 1920s or 1930s. Collar dogs were introduced for other ranks in the mid 1920s.

    Which regiment is still difficult to make out.

    Mike.
     
  8. Steve Mac

    Steve Mac Very Senior Member

    Looks like a Royal Marines cap badge to me, but if it was RMLI it would have a 'light infantry bugle' just under the crown at the top of the cap badge - this one hasn't.

    Could it be an Indian Army Light Infantry regiment?

    Best,

    Steve.
     
  9. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    No idea Steve - I'm normally pretty good with cap badges. Here's the whole picture:

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  10. Trux

    Trux 21 AG

    Ah!

    Not a whistle lanyard then.

    Mike
     
  11. Steve Mac

    Steve Mac Very Senior Member

  12. Mr Jinks

    Mr Jinks Bit of a Cad

    Hi Steve,

    The RMLI had a knotted bugle instead of the Crown not below it ,the RM version also has a Lion on top of the Crown the photo is`nt clear enough to make out which (if any) version it is

    Best

    Kyle

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  13. Staffsyeoman

    Staffsyeoman Member

    No offence meant, but I think the suggestion that "dark means a rifle unit" is bunkum here. At the base level (discounting the Royal Marines) Service Dress caps were not made in khaki drill - only in khaki serge. If an SD cap was worn with a KD uniform, it would look darker. (As a case in point, see the pictures of John Keneally VC Irish Guards receiving his ribbon - KD uniform, dark cap). I can't comment if Royal Marines wore SD caps [my belief is that they wore the white-topped, red banded caps when caps were worn] but my inclination is to say not a rifle regiment.
     
  14. Steve Mac

    Steve Mac Very Senior Member

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    Evening Kyle - I agree and should have said 'the bulge at the top', but still don't think it is RMLI!

    The collar dogs look more like prancing horses, rather than Light Infantry, to me. Unfortunately, that still has not provided an answer as to the regiment...yet.

    Best,

    Steve.
     
  15. Tom Canning

    Tom Canning WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Military Police - pre war …?

    Cheers
     

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