Reconnaissance Corps Cap Badge

Badge second from left is white metal reconnaissance corps scottish division 3rd badge along is officers bronze reconnaissance corps badge on the right is the yorkshire division.

Reconnaissance corps cap badge.

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The reconnaissance corps or simply recce corps was a corps of the british army formed during the second world war whose units provided the mobile spearhead of infantry divisions. The 43rd wessex reconnaissance regiment the gloucestershire regiment 43 recce was a regiment of the british army s reconnaissance corps itself part of the royal armoured corps during world war ii it fought in north west europe with the 21st army group in 1944 1945. Badge on the left is all brass reconnaissance corps. Throughout most of its existence the regiment was part of the 43rd wessex infantry division.

The reconnaissance corps was raised in 1941 and disbanded in 1946. Excellent selection of cap badges for the reconnaissance corps. With the end of the war this number of reconnaissance units was not needed and the reconnaissance corps was disbanded in august 1946. The corps badge incorporated a spear flanked by two bolts of lightning with a scroll reading reconnaissance corps.

It was formed from infantry brigade reconnaissance groups on 14 january 1941. Reconnaissance corp cap badgebrass cap badge. Reconnaissance corps brown plastic bakelite plastic cap badge kk 2201. This is an original ww2 reconnaissance corps cap badge for sale.

This is a reconnaissance corps military regiment cap badge. Other ranks had a yellow metal badge officers had a bi metal design. Badges are in good order but may need a polish. Reconnaissance corps cap badge.

The brass cap badge shown here features a spear flanked by two flashes of lighting the scroll underneath reads reconnaissance corps.