Army regiment help, please

[suttontrust]

If anyone's familiar with army regiments and their badges during World War II I'd be grateful if they could take a look at the attached very poor photo.  If it's impossible to recognise, maybe you could confirm my vague idea that he was in the REME.

[Fitty]

I,m no Cap badge specilist but here is the real thing.....do you think it looks the same?

[Vicky]

It looks very similar to this cap badge to me...

WW2 Corps of Military Police
George VI

[Berlin-Bob]

I am no expert, but I recently found the only existing photo of my grandfather. He is in uniform and I wanted to identify his cap badge.

On another board, somebody directed me to these sites:

http://www.army.mod.uk/presscentre/badges/cap_badges/com_arms/cap_com_arms.htm
and
http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/
where lots of cap badges are displayed

in particular, REME badges
http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/badges/corps3.htm

Personally, I don't think it does look like the REME badges, do you have any other details ?


Also found this REME site through Google:
http://www.rememuseum.org.uk/

Hope this helps,
Good luck
Bob

[Fitty]

I peronally think it looks likes Vickys MP badge.  If there any reason you thought he was in the REME, Suttontrust?

Fitty 

[suttontrust]

Thanks for the replies.  I'm more or less certain that he wasn't in the Military Police.  The idea of REME is just a half-remembered thing from childhood, plus the fact that his son went into that regiment.  There's no one left to ask now, hence the reliance on the photograph.

[SS from The Rhondda]

I have found WW1 Royal Engineers & the post 1953 (Queen Elizabeth II) Royal engineers cap badges.

I would assume that George VI badge would be very similar.

Your badge has the Crown, Laurel Wreath, an engraved circle inside it, and the initials of King George (GR vi). The centre section is voided (ie not solid as per WW1).

[suttontrust]

Thanks, I think that's the one. 

[EmPers]

I don't think it's the Military Police one, as in the picture, the bottom of the badge is just a circular wreath, the MP one has a label across it.