Royal Artillery?

Battery Sergeant Major? Your thought appreciated. It's from a very interesting photo I got off eBay this week.

 

Dare I say he's a Sgt? The badge above is a gun denoting he's in the Artillery

I bet he's a forum member or something

I'll shut up now

 

You should think looking at the cap badge RA or RE?

 

Unfortunately you can't quite see the badges. I am just thinking that is a BSM rank?

 

Sorry about the size but I think this is the badge above his chevrons

 

Sgts wore a Regt badge above their chevrons. This practise is still followed today on Mess Kits.

The Sgt's in The Royal Corps of Signals still wear a 'Jimmy' on their Mess Kit


BSM's as with any SM or WO2 would wear the rank on the sleeve or a leather bracelet.

 

Drew is right, the rank shown is Sgt. A BSM would have been and still is a WO2. The rank would have been indicated by a crown on the forearm, either on the jacket sleeve or on a leather wrist band.

 

Yep definately a Sgt !

 

Sergeants and S/Sergeants in the Gunners wear the 'gun' above their chevrons like engineers of the same ranks wear a grenade.....so RA not RE....

 

Thanks for all the input. I will post the full photo tomorrow. The background to the group photo of which this Sgt is a member is the interesting bit...

 

Hi Paul,

Any chance of seeing the full pic?

Cheers

 

Cheers Owen........I've been watching this thread waiting for it to be posted lol