Graham Stewart

'Pamphlet for Recruiters 1896' & 'Extracts from Militia Regulations 1895, Paragraph 133'. Graham.

Queens Regulatons 1895 - Section VII Paragraph 177(cont'd). Graham.

Queen's Regulations 1895 - Section VII, Para 177 Graham.

Funny how some things don't change. Taken from 'Standing Orders of the Northumberland Fusiliers(5th Regiment of Foot) - 1916'. Graham.

My feelings exactly. Items turn up within units that are in retrospect 'semi-official' and wouldn't meet with official standards. Among my NF collection I have an almost full run of post 1950's cloth Northumberland Home Guard shoulder titles, which were removed from a tailors book in Northern Ireland of all places. Seem to be 'one off's', as I've never seen the same again. Graham. Macedonian Mule Corps MIC's are here;- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...mp;mediaarray=*

Check these MIC's for the Zion Mule Corps;- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...mp;mediaarray=* Graham.

Final mystery RRF badge. A 'R.R.F./A.C.F.' shoulder title, again origin unknown. Had this title probably the longest in the collection and first seen late 1970's. Graham.

If we started an NF/RNF thread we probably would be in big trouble for hogging all of the download file space, as we could probably go on forever. If you do have any NF/RNF photo's you'd like like me to look at would look upon it as a pleasure to do so. Even though I have over a 1,000 photo's I still like to see other peoples as they inevitably(?) have a 'corker or two', which gets my adrenalin going. Although not NF related saw a photo my mate bought last weekend, which was to me of great significance. The guy who was identified as 'Raphael Constantis' serving with 29th Div in Alexandria and is almost certainly 'Macedonian Mule Corps' of all things. Graham.

The 'IFOR' brassard that was worn later on. Graham.

1st Bn, RRF brassard from Balkans tour showing the new U.N. patch you describe. Graham.

Leigh, Believe the unusual design for RRF officers(major and above) was in use long before the Invasion of Kuwait in 1992. As a collector/researcher I'm suprised just how many types of badges can be found to one individual modern regiment. Many badge collectors I know are 'puritans', when it comes to collecting and will not continue into amalgamations, then moan because they 'can't find nowt'. I made it my mission to carry my NF/RNF collection over to include the RRF and can say that it's paid off with far more badges than I would have expected. I also ran it to include T.A., A.C.F. and C.C.F. units that are RRF affiliated and that brought more stuff in. Graham.

Queens Fusiliers Officers rank slide - came with just unit title and pips/crowns were added. Only have this one in a tan colour, never seen in black on olive apart from O/R's. Leigh, Thanks for adding your input to this post, it's been nice to see that 'Fusiliers' title which has avoided me for years. I do have other cloth stuff which is RRF associated and will add as time permits. Cheers, Graham.

RRF Officers rank slides off woolley pulley and dark green shirts. Again have a full set. Graham.

RRF Officers rank slides - light coloured for desert/tan uniforms. Have a full run of these from RRF H.Q. Graham.

Top - RRF Companies, the 'West Midlands Regiment'. AMF(Air Mobile Force) - Worn by ? Regular RRF Bn attached to AMF. Graham.

RRF other ranks slip-on titles for shirts and woolley pulley's - all battalions. Graham.

'X Coy, 1st Bn, RRF' - Company sports badge. Graham.

'Second Fusiliers' - 2nd Bn, RRF from DPM Jacket. 'Queens Fusiliers' - Short lived slip-on title from 'woolly pulley' & DPM Jacket. Graham.

'First Fusiliers' - 1st Bn, RRF off both desert & temperate jackets. Graham.

RRF Battalion/Company Flashes;- St. Oswalds Shield(based on Northumbrian District) - 6th Bn, RRF Macaw(based on 46th(South Midland)Div) - 5th Bn, RRF Arms of the City of London - RRF Companies, London Regt. Graham.

The 'DZ' patches as mentioned by Tyneside Irish. One from DPM jacket and the smaller one from the helmet cover. Due to complaints from the Parachute Regt who have the monopoly over 'DZ' patches the title was later changed to 'Tactical Flash' for those worn on jackets. Graham.

Some of my RRF cloth stuff coming your way for viewing. "Royal Regt of Fusiliers" cloth shoulder title - origin unknown, but first found around 1980. Graham. PS Please excuse some of the colouring, this is due to the scanner not showing them clearly.

Cap badges, black buttons and black shoulder titles of the other soldiers indicate Royal Irish Rifles. Graham.

Press studs are only to be found on badges worn in the Far East and in particular India, where they were removed from K.D. uniforms before they were laundered locally. Wonder if the original owner had anything to do with the Burmese tribesmen fighting the Japanese? If so probably very unofficial, but it wouldn't be the first time I've heard of unofficial titles being worn in India. Graham.

The only Cameronians battalions, apart from the 1st Bn, left standing after the last War were the 6th, 7th & 10th Bns(T.A.). The 6th & 10th amalgamated in 1947 and were reconstitued as the 6th(Lanarkshire)Bn. This and the 7th Bn were amalgamated in June 1950 to become the 6/7th Bn, Cameronians(Scottish Rifles)(T.A.). The story of the 6/7th Bn becomes a little complicated with it splitting into two elements on the formation of TAVR II & TAVR III in April 1967. It forms both 'D'(Cameronians(Scottish Rifles))Coy, 52nd Lowland Volunteers(which later became the 1st Bn, 52nd Lowland Volunteers in 1971) and 'B'(6/7th Cameronians(Scottish Rifles))Coy,The Royal Scots & Cameronians Territorials. In April 1969 a 'cadre' from 'B' Company,R.S. & C.T. was formed as the 6/7th(T)Bn, Cameronians(Scottish Rifles), which was then disbanded in April 1971 and reformed as No.4(Cameronians(Scottish Rifles))Coy, 2nd Bn, 52nd Lowland Volunteers. What has happend in the intervening years I'm not sure, but think Leigh is correct with his analysis. Graham.