General Service Corps Cap Badge. United Kingdom.

$7.00

Anodised (stay bright) St Edward's (Queen's) crown cap/beret badge for General Service Corps (GSC), British Army. United Kingdom.
Post-1955.

Good condition and complete with two lugs. Ref: F28.

The General Service Corps (GSC) is a corps of the British Army.
The role of the corps is to provide specialists, who are usually on the Special List or General List. These lists were used in both World Wars for specialists and those not allocated to other regiments or corps.
The General Service Corps itself was formed in February 1942.
The General Service Corps was primarily intended to deal with the inevitably large throughput of personnel at times of war, but since the end of World War Two it has remained in being for the few officers awaiting allocation at any one time.
Nickname was "Crosse and Blackwell" (after the firm whose tins and jar labels had a prominent royal coat of arms).

From 1914, for the General List and later the General Service Corps, the cap badge has been the Royal Arms, with variously a Tudor Crown or St Edward's Crown, depending on the reigning monarch.
It bears the motto of the monarch Dieu et mon droit and the Order of the Garter motto Honi soit qui mal y pense.
The same cap badge has been used for other British Army regiments and corps for which no unique badge has been authorised, including the Royal Reserve Regiments, the later Royal Garrison Regiment, and the Bermuda Militia Infantry.
A version of the badge with a Queen's crown and Elizabeth II Arms was introduced around 1955.
A soldier's anodised aluminium version of this latter badge exists and is said to be used on No. 2 Dress and the wristband by WO1s of the 9/12 Lancers.
This pattern, with a Queen's crown, was sealed in November 1958. It exists in gilding metal and anodised aluminium.

Anodised (stay bright) St Edward's (Queen's) crown cap/beret badge for General Service Corps (GSC), British Army. United Kingdom.
Post-1955.

Good condition and complete with two lugs. Ref: F28.

The General Service Corps (GSC) is a corps of the British Army.
The role of the corps is to provide specialists, who are usually on the Special List or General List. These lists were used in both World Wars for specialists and those not allocated to other regiments or corps.
The General Service Corps itself was formed in February 1942.
The General Service Corps was primarily intended to deal with the inevitably large throughput of personnel at times of war, but since the end of World War Two it has remained in being for the few officers awaiting allocation at any one time.
Nickname was "Crosse and Blackwell" (after the firm whose tins and jar labels had a prominent royal coat of arms).

From 1914, for the General List and later the General Service Corps, the cap badge has been the Royal Arms, with variously a Tudor Crown or St Edward's Crown, depending on the reigning monarch.
It bears the motto of the monarch Dieu et mon droit and the Order of the Garter motto Honi soit qui mal y pense.
The same cap badge has been used for other British Army regiments and corps for which no unique badge has been authorised, including the Royal Reserve Regiments, the later Royal Garrison Regiment, and the Bermuda Militia Infantry.
A version of the badge with a Queen's crown and Elizabeth II Arms was introduced around 1955.
A soldier's anodised aluminium version of this latter badge exists and is said to be used on No. 2 Dress and the wristband by WO1s of the 9/12 Lancers.
This pattern, with a Queen's crown, was sealed in November 1958. It exists in gilding metal and anodised aluminium.