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On this page you will find special dress destinctions such as coloured loops and lanyards.
On the next pages you will find badges of rank, cap badges and shoulder titles, qualification badges, sweetheart badges and formation badges.

Lanyards were worn on the left shoulder (best BD), coloured shoulder strap loops were worn on both shoulders (BD and Denison smock).
Parachute battalions:
1st battalion: green lanyard
2nd battalion: yellow lanyard
3rd battalion: red lanyard
4th battalion: black lanyard
5th battalion: Hunting Stewart tartan behind cap badge
6th battalion: black collar ribbon
7th battalion green cloth behind cap badge
7th battalion: green loop
8th battalion: dark blue loop
9th battalion: maroon loop
10th battalion: light blue and dark blue with orange strip in the middle
12th battalion: light blue loop
13th battalion: black loop
12th battalion: light blue epaulet loop with "Yorkshire"
156th battalion: black lanyard and qualification wings on a black background
1st Canadian para battalion: yellow loop
21nd and 22nd Independent Parachute Company: white/blue lanyard

Airlanding infantry battalions:
2nd battalion South Staffordshire regiment:
Bn HQ and HQ Company: white lanyard
A Company: green lanyard
B Company: red lanyard
C Company: blue lanyard
D Company: black lanyard
S Company: yellow lanyard
F Company: dark blue lanyard

1st battalion the Border Regiment:
HQ Company: yellow loop
A Company: green loop
B Company: white/purple loop
C Company: red loop
D Company: pale blue loop
S Company: dark blue loop
T/R Company: black loop

1st battalion the Royal Ulster Rifles:
rifle green lanyard
2nd battalion the Oxfordshre and Buckinghamshire light infantry:
blue lanyard

12th battalion the Devonshire regiment:
red lanyard

Airborne support units:
16th Parachute Field Ambulance:
cherry and yellow lanyard

Air-Landing Field Ambulance units:
cherry lanyard

Royal Artillery airlanding anti-tank battery:
white lanyard

1st Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers:
blue lanyard


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