FS 296 The first Formation Sign of 2025 includes articles on the newly-formed Royal Army Medical Service, the insignia of the Army's recruiters, the Royal Navy's equivalent of the Derby Scheme armband, a display of formation sign drawings for an unpublished series of cigarette cards, cloth slip-on titles from the First World War, some badges authorised by the Army Dress Committee last year - and in 1950 - a selection of badged battledress and some cloth badges connected with the war in Ukraine. And several other items of interest.
	FS 297 This issue includes further information on the uniform and insignia of Army Recruiters and records some of the stations and outposts of Empire in which British soldiers found themselves in the 1920s and 1930s. A longstanding mystery badge is finally identified as that of a Free Polish brigade which served in Italy, a member appeals for help in finding an example of a Free Dutch sign, there is photographic evidence of the use of the 22nd Armoured Brigade stag head vehicle sign, detailed information on the post-war use of the Kiwi sign by New Zealand forces, a rare sighting of the Midlands Brigade on both battledress arms and further information on the aircrew wings worn by government departments in the 1950s and 1960s.

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