Pakistan Field Marshal shoulder boards - interesting variant

[achern]

Gents,

Here's what arrived the mail today. A pair of Field Marshal ranks from Pakistan. These are quite small shoulder boards, and the back has a strap with a snap-on button. They came wrapped tightly in some very old, very yellow, and very flaky cellophane paper.

[Mervyn Mitton]

Alf - must have been for field service ? Interesting the way British influence still persists years after the Colonial links have been broken. I wonder if a Pakistan FM actually carries a Baton as on the Rank ?

[Brian Wolfe]

Very nice examples thanks for posting them.

Regards

Brian

[achern]

Hard to say what it was for, but they do have a 'bush jacket'. It doesn't seem quite appropriate to use bullion for field dress, but one never knows!

The current highest rank is that of General, and it is also based on the British system of crossed-sword-and-baton, diamond pip and the crescent-and-star.

There was only one FM, Muhammad Ayub Khan, before and up to 1958.

Alf - must have been for field service ? Interesting the way British influence still persists years after the Colonial links have been broken. I wonder if a Pakistan FM actually carries a Baton as on the Rank ?