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[edit] United Kingdom
Bermuda Regiment recruits wear generic Navy blue berets.The British Army beret dates back to 1918 when the French 70th Chasseurs alpins were training with the British Tank Corps. The Chasseurs alpins wore a distinctive large beret (see above) and Major-General Sir Hugh Elles, the TC's Colonel, realised this style of headdress would be a practical option for his tank crews, forced to work in a reduced space. He thought, however, that the Chasseur beret was "too sloppy" and the Basque-style beret of the French tank crews was "too skimpy", so a compromise based on the Scottish tam o'shanter was designed and submitted for the approval of George V in November 1923. It was adopted in March 1924.
During the Second World War the beret was also adopted by the Commandos and Parachute Regiment. Later in the war, a rather baggier beret-like hat, called a General Service Cap, was issued to all ranks of the British Army (with RAC, parachute, commando, Scottish and Irish units excepted), to replace the earlier Field Service Cap. The GS Cap was not popular, and after the war was replaced with a true beret.[7]
Today, every British military unit wears a beret, with the exception of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and Royal Irish Regiment, who wear the tam o'shanter and the caubeen respectively (the Scots Guards and Irish Guards, however, wear berets, as frequently do the Royal Irish Regiment on operations). Many of these berets are in distinctive colours and all are worn with the cap badge of the service, regiment or corps. The cap badge for all services in the UK is supposed to be worn directly over the left eye.
[edit] Beret Colours
The colours are as follows:
Khaki — Foot Guards, Honourable Artillery Company, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, Royal Anglian Regiment, Royal Gibraltar Regiment, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, Royal Welsh, Yorkshire Regiment, Mercian Regiment, 4/73 (Sphinx) Special OP Battery Royal Artillery[8]
Light grey — Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Dark grey — Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Brown — King's Royal Hussars, Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Black — Royal Tank Regiment, W (Westminster Dragoons) Squadron, Royal Yeomanry
Dark (Rifle) green — The Rifles, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Small Arms School Corps, Essex Yeomanry
Maroon — Parachute Regiment, All ranks serving with 16 Air Assault Brigade other than the non Parachute Regiment Infantry Battalion (note that the beret is not restricted to Parachute qualified personnel).
Beige — Special Air Service including attached troops who are not SAS-qualified
Emerald grey - Special Reconnaissance Regiment
Cambridge blue — Army Air Corps
Cypress green — Intelligence Corps
Scarlet — Royal Military Police
Green — Adjutant General's Corps (except Royal Military Police, who wear scarlet; Army Legal Services Branch, who wear black; and Military Provost Staff, who wear navy blue), Military Provost Guard Service
Navy blue — Generic: worn by all other Army units (except Scottish and Irish line infantry regiments), Royal Navy, Royal Marines who are not commando-qualified (and who wear the Royal Marines capbadge with red backing)
Commando green — commando-qualified Royal Marines, Commando qualified personnel of all services serving in Commando units, Special Boat Service
Rifle Green - Rifle Regiments, e.g. Royal Gurkha Rifles.
RAF blue grey — Royal Air Force (including RAF Regiment) as well as use in the Air Training Corps [9]
[edit] Other Adornments
Some Regiments and Corps wear a coloured backing behind the capbadge, these include:
Foot Guards - Blue Red Blue patch (less the officers of the Scots Guards, who wear a patch of Royal Stewart tartan)
Honourable Artillery Company - Black Circle
Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - Primrose and Blue Patch
Royal Anglian Regiment - Small Black 'Tombstone'
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps — Red Patch
Royal Army Medical Corps - Dull Cherry Oval Patch
Army Air Corps - Black Patch
Army Physical Training Corps - Patch in Corps Colours
Royal Marines 'Red Tombstone' (only on blue beret worn by those who are not commando-qualified)
Royal Welsh Regiment and Mercian Regiment - Green badge outline and square respectively
Queen's Royal Lancers - red Patch
Blues and Royals - Blue and Red striped flash
Yorkshire Regiment - Brunswick (British Racing) Green.
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, the only remaining independent fusilier regiment, wears a feather hackle on the beret. Other ranks of the Royal Welsh also wear hackles.
Members of the Royal Tank Regiment, 4/73 (Sphinx) Special OP Battery Royal Artillery[10] , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Royal Logistic Corp (Private - Ssgt), Army Air Corps, Parachute Regiment, SAS and Intelligence Corps wear berets in Nos 1, 2, 3 and 6, Dress. Other English and Welsh Regiments and Corps wear peaked caps in these orders of dress.[11] Troops from other services, regiments or corps on attachment to units with distinctive coloured berets often wear those berets (with their own cap badge). Colonels, brigadiers and generals usually continue to wear the beret of the regiment or corps to which they used to belong with the cap badge distinctive to their rank.
[edit] Old Units
Former regiments and corps, now amalgamated, that did not wear navy blue berets included:
Khaki — Green Howards, King's Own Royal Border Regiment, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps, infantry motor battalions in World War II
Dark (Rifle) green — Light Infantry, Royal Green Jackets, Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry, Rifle Brigade, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
Black — all Royal Armoured Corps regiments in World War II, Westminster Dragoons, Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons
Maroon — Glider Pilot Regiment and glider-borne units
Green — Women's Royal Army Corps, women in Officers Training Corps (now wear navy blue)
Brown with a broad crimson headband and NO hat badge - 11th Hussars (PAO)
