Lets see your British Army Dress/forage Caps and chat!!!

[CBH]

On closer inspection the hat is a William Scully of Montreal .

[Jerry B]

On closer inspection the hat is a William Scully of Montreal .

Very nice, it would be great to see the underside of both if you can.

[Hans Mandy]

[CBH]

Very nice, it would be great to see the underside of both if you can.

I will post more photos as soon as I can , the sun is going down here . But i'll see what I can do .
Cheers

[CBH]

Got some taken , here goes . The first one is the beret , the others are the officers hat .

[Jerry B]

1970's or 80's I would say and with the wrong possibly fake badge on it.

[Jerry B]

Got some taken , here goes . The first one is the beret , the others are the officers hat .

Nice, beret post war I think, not really up on Canadian made items so cannot state with any authority.

[Hans Mandy]

Thank you for your information he was saying it was ww2 paratrooper 1st/6th airborne div

[Jerry B]

Thank you for your information he was saying it was ww2 paratrooper 1st/6th airborne div

He was mistaken or lying.

[Jerry B]

Got this odd one yesterday, perhaps Michael or Oli or Bob or someone else has an opinion.

It in many ways matches a British army senior officers cap, with a single row of leaves on the peak and the correct colour conbination of the band and welts.

It has a bandmans badge on it, which has been there a long time, maker marked to The Uniform And Equipment Company, 10-11 Clerkenwell Green, whose premises there were destroyed in a fire in 1913 and were later rebuilt on the same site. Later again they became Uniquip until they closed in the 1990's.

Apart from the badge, the oakleaves are in metal, not something I have seen before, it has the stiff top typical of early caps and plain small ball buttons.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Is it a bands mans cap, or is it an early senior officers cap rebadged and reused by a bands man?