Just bought this one from Ebay from a seller in S. Wales, an officers SD tunic for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. It has a tailors label inside with the date July 1943 and the officers name and rank, Captain JR Williams, it has its buttons and rank pips, but appears to be missing its OSD collar dogs, but they should hopefully not be too expensive to replace. Most importantly to me, it still has its Black Ribbon Flash attached to the rear of the collar, which was a special dress distinction unique to the RWF and dates from 1834 when they were the 23rd regiment of foot (RWF).
They were awarded this honour by permission of the King and are the only British army regiment to wear them.
My next door neighbor used to be the Colonel In Chief of the Regiment and as it is from a Welsh regiment and dates to WWII I am very pleased to get this tunic and I look forward to its arrival.
These are the sellers pics and I'll post some more when it arrives.
By a strange coincidence, I also purchased a Gloucester Regiment back badge, another of the unique forms of dress worn by British regiments as they were the only regiment allowed to wear a badge on the back of their caps as well as that worn on the front. The sellers pic and I'll post some more when it arrives
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