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unusual facts about cap badge



3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment

The Guards Parachute Platoon is made up of volunteers from the 5 Regiments of the Foot Guards who can be distinguished from other paratroopers by a "blue red blue" patch sewn to their beret beneath the Parachute Regiment cap badge.

Phra Kiao

When King Chulalongkorn founded the Royal Pages School, he granted permission for the Phra Kiao to be used as the School's cap badge and symbol.


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Special Reconnaissance Regiment

The cap badge shares Excalibur (the sword of king Arthur) in common with the other Special Forces units, in the case of the SRR placed behind a Corinthian helmet surmounting a scroll inscribed RECONNAISSANCE.

The Drums of the Fore and Aft

The real-life basis for the "Fore and Aft" Regiment might be a nickname of the Gloucestershire Regiment, which has a cap badge on the front and back of its headdress.

Witwatersrand Rifles Regiment

As befitted a regiment based from the gold-rich Witwatersrand region, it had a very close relationship with the mining establishment of the time; and its cap badge further emphasised this link.