Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Beret Badge

#00003606

Price:	$29.00
Shipping:	Canada: $4.00	International: $4.00
Insurance:	Canada/US: $30.00	International: $12.00
If insurance is declined the buyer takes all responsibility for damage or loss in shipping.
		S+H: $16.00 No GST Shipping to United States Change Country

You are viewing a post 1953 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers cap badge with tang style attachment. This badge is bimetal, made of white metal and plated brass. May be a recent production.  In excellent condition. View scans for details.

Some History: The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (often referred to as the Royal Fusiliers or, simply, the Fusiliers) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division. Currently, the regiment has two battalions: the 1st battalion, part of the Regular Army, is an armoured infantry battalion based in Tidworth, Wiltshire, and the 5th battalion, part of the Army Reserve, recruits in the traditional fusilier recruiting areas across England. The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was largely unaffected by the infantry reforms that were announced in December 2004, but under the Army 2020 reduction in the size of the Army, its second battalion was merged into the first in 2014. As a Fusilier regiment, the Fusiliers wear a hackle? the red-over-white hackle of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. This distinction was originally a white plume which His Majesty's Fifth Regiment of Foot had taken from the headdress of fallen French troops at St. Lucia in December 1778. In 1829, King George IV ordered the white plume to be worn by all infantry regiments, and in order not to take away from the Fifth (Northumberland) Regiment of Foot's peculiar distinction and reflecting that they had won it in battle (according to legend the original plumes were stained red with the blood of their foes), their plume was differentiated by being made "half red and half white, the red uppermost, instead of the plain white feather worn by the rest of the army per the 1829 order, as a peculiar mark of honour.

Guaranteed 100% genuine.