Updated Army Service Dress project

[Kilted]

Was 2013 the year the pips and crowns came back? If that is true, we have officers and NCM's who have known nothing but pips and crowns, Executive Curls and Pearl Gray RCAF stripes.

Also, some units never stopped wearing Crowns and Pips on certain orders of dress. We had to learn both systems.

 

[MacNav63]

Somehow or other Dad got away with wearing his pre-unification ordnance corps mess kit, complete with pips and crowns, until he retired from the regular force in '87.

 

[Rifleman62]

In days past British Rifle Regt Officers never wore ranks on their Mess Kit as everyone knew their brother officers.
Don't know if that continues.

 

[OldSolduer]

Somehow or other Dad got away with wearing his pre-unification ordnance corps mess kit, complete with pips and crowns, until he retired from the regular force in '87.

Their is usually a clause that states that if a member had mess kit before the change they can continue to wear it.

 

[daftandbarmy]

In days past British Rifle Regt Officers never wore ranks on their Mess Kit as everyone knew their brother officers.
Don't know if that continues.

The Black Mafia?

I always assumed their shoulder rank badges were torn off by the boots of their bosses who were using them to career climb higher