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Essex Regiment cap badge, WWI. Active: 21 July 1915–2 May 1919: Country: ... Essex Regiment, was a unit formed from older or unfit men for line of communication ...
While the men donned the black beret of the Royal Armoured Corps, they continued to wear their Essex Regiment cap badge as did all infantry units converted in this manner. [59] During the conversion, surplus personnel were formed into 'R' Company, Essex Regiment, which soon afterwards was designated as V Corps HQ Defence Company. [60]
All TA searchlight units were transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA) on 1 August 1940, the two 6th Essex units being designated 64th (Essex Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, RA (TA), and 65th (Essex Regiment) Searchlight Regiment, RA (TA) respectively. They retained their Essex Regiment cap badges and buttons.
During the First World War the British Armed Forces was enlarged to many times its peacetime strength. This was done mainly by adding new battalions to existing regiments (the King's Royal Rifles raised a total of 26 battalions).
On 1 August 1940, all Army S/L units were transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA), and the battalion became 69th (3rd City of London) Searchlight Regiment, RA, though retaining its Royal Fusiliers cap badge; the AA companies were redesignated S/L batteries.
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.
Accordingly, the 1st Battalions of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and the Essex Regiment were merged to form the 3rd East Anglian Regiment (16th/44th Foot) on 2 June 1958, which itself became part of a new "large regiment": the Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964.
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