Headdress & Cap Badge
In working dress the regiment wore the grey beret of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. This was also worn by personnel attached from other arms and services such as Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers tradesmen, Royal Logistic Corps Chefs or a Commanding Officer from a regular cavalry Regiment.
The scarlet hussar cap of the Ayrshire Yeomanry was adopted for wear with ceremonial uniforms with subalterns wearing silver peaks, as worn in the QOY, and field officers and above wearing gold peaks as would have been correct for the Ayrshire Yeomanry.
In "C" Squadron a red-white-green diced balmoral bonnet with cock feather was often worn in place of the scarlet cap.
The cap badge of the regiment consisted of the Lion Rampant of Scotland upon crossed lances under the Scottish Crown. It was the only British Army cap badge, at the time, to show the Scottish Crown. The cap badge of the new Royal Regiment of Scotland is very similar.
Upon establishment of the Regiment the "Mailed Fist" badge of the Royal Armoured Corps was worn which was superseded by cloth patch badges bearing the new Regiment's approved badge. Metal badges arrived later and were worn on a black cloth backing on the grey beret, and without backing on No 1 and No 2 Dress caps. Officers wore wire embroidered badges on their berets and side-caps, and the metal badge on No 1 and No 2 Dress caps.
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