WW II Cap badge identification please

[wecanbeheroes]

This is my uncle Ron during WW II - I am told he was in Singapore at one point in the war.

Can anyone ID this particular badge please?

Thanks 

PS. I am not responsible for the colourisation of the pic - it's the wrong place to ask but... if anyone would like to redo the colour 

[barryd]

Was he in the Australian Army, New Zealand, Canada, British Isles or other?

[wecanbeheroes]

He was in the British army, thanks

[barryd]

A soldier did not always join a regiment from the area he was living but it is possible that Ron did join his local regiment. What County was he from?

[mmm45]

Its similar to a number of units especially the Corps ... Royal Corps of Signals,Army Veterinary Corps,REME just a pity that its distorted.

Ady

[kiwistar]

Hi there....it really looks like an Australian slouch hat, as the band is the same design as well...the badge looks like its from some sort of medical corp?? Maybe completely off the track but my gut goes with it...Its the band on the hat if you look at the Australian one and also the crown..Army badges were on the side of the upturned brim

Hope this helps, as i said maybe completely wrong

Sally

[ennael]

Are you able to provide Uncle Rons'  name please?

Leanne

[macintosh]

I was thinking on the same lines as Army Veterinary Corps but the badge I found for that period  1918 -55 shows a centaur in the middie and has a rigid scroll along the bottom.
Jungle greens( if the colourist has got it right) are right for the period >1944 but not sure if Uncle Ron was in Singapore post war or up  to Feb 1942.
The layers of bands on the puggaree, if the seven I counted are correct were indicative of Australian  slouch hats (although British troops wore slouch hats throughout the Burma Campaign, as did the Chindit columns the puggaree was slightly different) The seven bands to represent the Australian states, perhaps someone can elaborate on that.

 None of the Royal Australian Medical Corps badges resemble this one on Ron's hat nor any of the airborne forces badges. There are only two badges I can find that has a very thin wreath like this one, are Army air corps and Royal Border Regiment, but it is none of these either.

Was he a Brit or a digger?

James

[wecanbeheroes]

Thanks for all the replies so far.

If it helps narrow things down, his full name was Ronald Wallace Slade [though it was Wallace Ronald Slade on his birth cert] he was born in Bristol 1924 and returned home there after the war. Some family members say he was in the REME but I can't find any similar REME cap badges online.