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You are welcome, Michael.
I have a question for you and anyone else. A dealer has listed a rare, pre-WWI officer's cap for the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons; it has what looks like a correct officer's...

Definitely not RAPC unless, of course yellow piping is hiding under the replaced band.
Only other regiments with a blue body & yellow crown piping are 3rd Carbiniers, Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry,...

I forgot to mention that Alllenby's only son, an officer in the RHA,was killed in action during WWI, so the title passed to his nephew upon his death.

BobS

Really great stuff, Jerry. Congratulations.cool militaria

BobS

Gotcha, I should have looked closer. You know what happens when you assume!
No name in mine by the way.
I have a few caps with identifiable initials from Army Lists. One of my closest friends has a...

Nice one, Jerry. I can't really read the label, do to the carmelization, which leads me to believe my cap was made a bit earlier than yours.
I'm thinking early 1950's, whereas yours may be from the...

Here you go, Jerry.
A typical post war Herbert Johnson made cap. Thankfully, the only moth nip is under the rear overhang.
I have to say I really like that crimson color for "The...

For whatever reason, I decided to assemble all of my cavalry & yeomanry caps together, although after I was done, I missed two caps! They are officer service dress caps for the 17th/21st Lancers...

Other ranks cap for the old 2nd Dragoon Guards ( Queen's Bays).
The moths had a good time on one side of the band, but it displays OK IMHO and the cap itself seems scarce to me.

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Thanks much Jerry. Yes, the badge has a subtle elegance to it, and I like it very much.

One more recent acquistion, a 1950's era cap for a junior officer of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars.

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Very nice; I've not seen that maker before.

BobS

Yes, the additional piping is to recall the piping on the crown of the full dress czapka.

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Another yeomanry visor cap, which I have had for some time, this for other ranks of the Middlesex Yeomanry.

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Another recent addition, a junior officer's visor cap for the North Somerset Yeomanry, for the period that they were part of the Royal Armoured Corps post WWII.

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I should add that I was bidding on another RSG offficer's cap on Ebay last week; it sold for an absurd price of $ 747!

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Another cap that arrived in the mail yesterday, junior officer's of the Royal Scots Greys, named on the sweatband to R.B. Anderson, later rose to at least major's rank.
The badge was a well worn...

A cap that I have been looking for for a long time, a 9th Lancers officer's dress forage cap, for junior officer ranks. Kings Crown on badge & buttons, so pre-1953.

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Cap is for a major or lt. colonel of a line, non-royal infantry regiment. Construction seems to indicate it was made in the 30's or 40's.
Now, the list of possible regiments would include those that...

Service dress cap for ERII era general officer, ex-Royal Signals, given the side buttons.

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Pre-war or WWII era Royal Artillery company grade officer & RAMC field grade officer
Postwar Green...

Thanks, Michael. I have a few more that I need to get photographed; Northumberland Hussars officer, Royal Artillery WWII officer, and a post-war general's service visor cap.

I finally had some photos taken of some caps acquired over the past year or so. They are for officers of The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, 2nd County of London Yeomanry ( Westminster Dragoons) , The...

Hard to say, Michael, as the regimental history only lists the year an officer joined the regiment. Harvey is not listed anywhere else in the book, and is not in the 1952 Army List, the closest...

Thanks, Michael. Harvey is listed as an officer in the regiment in 1941, according to " History of the XII Royal Lancers" by P.F.Stewart.
No listing thereafter.