Other-Ranks Gliding Metal
Middle - (KK1025) Cap Badge
Left & Right - (CW 368) Pair of Collar Badges
Bottom Left - (HR 522) QVC Button
Bottom Right - (WL 443) Shoulder Title
(Adopted and Sealed November 1918)
In use by mid 1919 by most units.
Privately made, Blackened Gliding Metal Cap & Collar Badges
Blackened Shoulder Title
For Officers & Warrant Officers Khaki Service Dress
Privately made, Gilt & Enamal Cap( KK1026), Collar Badges & Gilt Button
For Officers Blue Dress Uniform
An non pierced garter version of this badge also exists
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(KK2270) W.W.II Economy Bakalite Cap Badge
Dark Brown Chocolate Coloured Plastic with 2 brass blades on rear
No matching Collar badges were produced as these were not worn with Battle-Dress
In 1941 (ACI 2594 dated 27 December 1941) it was decided in order to conserve metal, that cap badges would where possible be produced in plastic. Some cap badges were deemed unsuitable for this process. The ACI went on to say that plastic and metal cap badges were allowed to be worn concurrently within any one unit, and that Quartermasters were not to indent for plastic badges ‘in bulk’ merely to ensure uniformity.
483,386 RAOC Bakalite badges were produced between 21/03/1942 & 05/09/1945 by two Makers:
173,296 by MentMore Manufacturing Co Ltd (MMMC) & 310,090 by Fraser & Glass (F & G)
A small number of these badges have been seen with no makers mark, manufacture unknown.
Plastic cap badges continued to be worn after the war in some units, when in working dress
