GENUINE ISSUE SAS CAP Beret BADGE ( SPECIAL AIR SERVICE for Sale

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GENUINE ISSUE SAS CAP Beret BADGE ( SPECIAL AIR SERVICE

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NEW ISSUE SAS BERET BADGE

This is an official CAP BADGE worn by The Special Air Service

Cap badge, a downward pointing flaming sword worked in cloth of a Crusader shield. Designed by Robert Charles \'Bob\' Tait, then Corporal (subsequently Squadron Sergeant Major in both the wartime British Regiments and latterly an officer in the RAF Regiment), MM and Bar London Scottish, TA (died June 6 1975) with the motto Who Dares, Wins. It was finally approved by the first Commanding Officer, David Stirling, with the proposed wording \'Descend to Defend\' or \'Strike and Destroy\' disallowed, following the usual British Army practice of a competition to design a cap badge for the new unit held after the completion of Operation Crusader by the 8th Army. The sword depicted is King Arthur\'s Excalibur (references to it as the Sword of Damocles derive from an article originally published in Mars and Minerva, the Regimental Journal written by a highly respected veteran of both British Regiments and the post-war re-raised Regiment. He was subsequently proved to be incorrect, but the story was picked up by the media and still gets repeated.), worked in the light and dark blue colours of the original No. 11 SAS Battalion. This was converted to a Roman pattern gladius when the design was made up by the tailors in Cairo. This badge is now sometimes incorrectly termed the winged dagger due to subsequent wartime mis attribution of its significance and the mistaken reference to it as this in the book of that name by Roy Farran who served in 2 SAS.

Manufactured to the highest standard by MoD approved

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NSN: 8455-99-973-9575

Description: Insignia, Organisational. Cap. Soldiers, Special Air Services. Cloth. Embroidered, light blue on dark blue.

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jarilodesign NEW ISSUE SAS BERET BADGE This is an official CAP BADGE worn by The Special Air ServiceCap badge, a downward pointing flaming sword worked in cloth of a Crusader shield. Designed by Robert Charles \'Bob\' Tait, then Corporal (subsequently Squadron Sergeant Major in both the wartime British Regiments and latterly an officer in the RAF Regiment), MM and Bar London Scottish, TA (died June 6 1975) with the motto Who Dares, Wins. It was finally approved by the first Commanding Officer, David Stirling, with the proposed wording \'Descend to Defend\' or \'Strike and Destroy\' disallowed, following the usual British Army practice of a competition to design a cap badge for the new unit held after the completion of Operation Crusader by the 8th Army. The sword depicted is King Arthur\'s Excalibur (refere