Question for you military types from a non-veteran

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Twenty badges of formations operating under Montgomery's command in the Eighth Army are pinned around the crown of the hat. These badges include:

Royal Horse Artillery,

Royal Armoured Corps,

Royal Tank Regiment,

King's Royal Rifle Corps,

Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey),

Queen's Own Highlanders

(Seaforth and Camerons),

Royal Warwickshire Regiment,

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment),

Sherwood Foresters

(Nottinghamshire/ Derbyshire Regiment),

Staffordshire Yeomanry

(Queen's Own Royal Regiment),

Essex Regiment,

Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment,

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry,

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry,

Edmonton Regiment (Canada),

Saskatoon Regiment (Canada),

New Zealand forces, and

South African forces.

The unidentified badges are possibly those of Polish units.

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-uni ... h_hat7.htm

Last edited by west-front on Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[JDK]

Well, yes, west-front, but that was all said in the quote on the previous page, wasn't it?!?

Robbie, I'm absolutely certain Montgomery's 'version' was all about 'look at me' - ego & PR. How much of which is debatable. By discarding the hat for the beret, it was clearly not about remembering where he'd been / served with.

Cheers,

Sorry the previous quote didn't list the units, I thought that might be of interest James

[JDK]

Sorry the previous quote didn't list the units, I thought that might be of interest James

No big issue, I just wondered if I was missing something. And the AWM entry looks like the one the non-authoritative digger history site copied - while the AWM quoted (most of) the units.

But hey, it's not something to argue about - don't stop posting your stuff, yes it is interesting.

Regards,

[seaknight15]

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