Help identify unit patch

[swillliams]

Hi,

1. The picture needs to be flipped horizontally - you can see the text on the shoulder flash is back to front. And his button holes are on the 'wrong' side.

2. The badge is described as that worn by 'War Office Controlled Units' - not very helpful to be honest: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30072786

3. The shoulder flash has "R. A" but the rest is missing. It looks like red text on a blue backing - that might help identify the rest of the detail but I can't remember what options that would include. Possibly "R.A.O.C." - Royal Army Ordnance Corps but I am happy to be corrected.

4. The uniform is khaki not blue - so Army, not RAF.

Hope that's of some help.

ATB.

Could the R.A be royal artillery

[SiGr]

Hi,

Not RAMC. If you google "R.A.M.C. shoulder flash" you will see it was white lettering on a maroon background. Your photo definitely is not white lettering.

Not R.A. either as you can tell you are seeing only half the flash so there must be a similar (2) letters out of camera shot. Hence why I thought it might be R.A.O.C.

As to War Office Controlled Units, I have no idea but I suspect a Google search will answer that.

Good luck with your research.

ATB

Simon

[swillliams]

Yeha I did look at the RAOC the website I looked at had RAOC and RAMC both maroon flashes that’s why I was thinking RAMC