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REME cap badge, first version, 1942–1947. After some interim designs, the badge of the Corps was formalised in June 1943 for use as the cap-badge, collar-badge, and on the buttons. It consisted of an oval Royally Crowned laurel wreath; on the wreath were four small shields at the compass points, each shield bearing one of the letters of "REME ...
Cap badge of the Corps of Royal Engineers. Active: ... Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) 1942 - When REME was created in 1942, ...
This is the category page for Cap badges of the British Army. ... File:REME cap badge.png; File:Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry Cap badge.png; File:Royal Corps of ...
This is the category age for badges and patches of British Army units which are smaller than Brigades. For brigade insignia, see: British Army Brigade insignia Media in category "British Army unit badges"
Army Ordnance Corps Cap Badge (pre-First World War) Supply and repair of technical equipment, principally artillery and small arms, was the responsibility of the Master General of the Ordnance and the Board of Ordnance from the Middle Ages until they lost their independence in 1855. Thereafter followed thirty years of fluctuating allocation of ...
Plastic cap badges were introduced during the Second World War, when metals became strategic materials.Nowadays many cap badges in the British Army are made of a material called "stay-brite" (anodised aluminium, anodising is an electro-plating process resulting in lightweight shiny badge), this is used because it is cheap, flexible and does not require as much maintenance as brass badges.
The RLC cap badge is an amalgamation of the cap badges of the forming corps: [5] The laurel and garter band is from the Royal Engineers; The Indian star is from the Royal Corps of Transport; The shield in the centre is from the Royal Army Ordnance Corps; The crossed axes are from the Royal Pioneer Corps
The new badge was an oval in shape, had a wreath of 10 maple leaves, which represented Canada's ten provinces, and on a blue field, which represented the Air Force, were a lightning bolt, superimposed on two crossed cannons, superimposed on a Wankel-type piston (the symbol the Society of Automotive Engineers) and surmounted by St. Edward's Crown.