generic brit insignia

if you wish to be generic - don't attach any insignia

Apart from rank, I don't believe there was any generic insignia - everything I've seen refers either to a particular division or regiment.

DDay orders were that all insignia was removed except rank, so the truly "generic" look is by far the easiest and correct, however a lot of units ignored the orders.

Yup, no insignia at all is generic and correct

oh well i guess ill leave alone.... just doesent scratch my itch..... have to think of another way to waist money...... shouldent take too long to think of something

What you do is, buy the appropriate insignia for each game, get fed up sewing it on and taking it off and replacing it every other week, by which time you should have a good enough collection to have either the right div patches or regimental flashes for every eventuality,so you then buy another couple of BD's and sew the most commonly used insignia on them to save having to do it so often, you then play a game with totally different insignia,so it all starts again.
Then one day the missus looks in your wardrobe and says " what the f*** do you need 18 uniforms for ? "

now thats more the advice i needed,all appart from the wife finding them

What you do is, buy the appropriate insignia for each game, get fed up sewing it on and taking it off and replacing it every other week, by which time you should have a good enough collection to have either the right div patches or regimental flashes for every eventuality,so you then buy another couple of BD's and sew the most commonly used insignia on them to save having to do it so often, you then play a game with totally different insignia,so it all starts again.
Then one day the missus looks in your wardrobe and says " what the f*** do you need 18 uniforms for ? "

shouldn't that be 17???? you sold one to me

The British Army is and always has been a tribal soceity.

Even when ordered to have 'sterile' battledress each unit finds some way of makinthemselves unique.

To that end there is no 'generic' insignia.

The nearest you would get really and the most useful (but not very exciting) is the 'arm of service' strip.

For infantry this is one two or three red felt strips on the arm denoting that your infantry (red) and your battalions position in the brigade.

Best leave it blank tbh if you dont have a pressing urge to be unit x.

There is also as an option the fictional infantry unit the army invented for that film 'the way ahead'....

DDay orders were that all insignia was removed except rank

Which one was that?
Must be one of the most ignored orders of all time?

'The Way Ahead'
David Niven, Peter Ustanov, Stanley Holloway et al.
Quality film.

My favourite war film ever.
Thanks to the awesome guys at Angels, myself and a few others of the 47 Commando lads have sets of the actual insignia used in the film ("D.G.L.I" shoulder titles & the fictional Div' patches that lampoon Fourth Div'). I'm waiting to get a very nice set of BD to put them on...

now that seems exactly what im looking for,something with a genuin look to it but without being a real unit,not to mention a war film i need to find and watch.cheers i know somebody on here would be able to supply a solution to my reticence of portraying a real unit,now to find the bits i need.

DDay orders were that all insignia was removed except rank

Which one was that?
Must be one of the most ignored orders of all time?

I was an army order late 1943 IIRC, the idea to deny the germans intel in the d-day build up.

The reality of the order was that units became even less standardised insignia wise as it opened up the floodgates for 'non standard' as all insignia was supposed to be removed other than rank. As you've noticed this as ignored to varying degrees by different units.

The Way Ahead is on Film 4 this Wednesday at 1.15pm.

I'm at hospital in the morning, so that's my afternoon on the sofa sorted.

Sky + 'd thank you friend

Cad

now that seems exactly what im looking for,something with a genuin look to it but without being a real unit,not to mention a war film i need to find and watch.cheers i know somebody on here would be able to supply a solution to my reticence of portraying a real unit,now to find the bits i need.

Going from the originals that were so very kindly given by the Angels lads, I was thinking of getting some repro' ones made up for others to use if we were going to 'go big' and do "The Dogs" as an airsoft unit. All the original D.G.L.I insignia is the printed cloth type if insignia (like the Polar Bear div' patches on PBI's 'Hallams' impressions), rather than embroidered felt type.

now that seems exactly what im looking for,something with a genuin look to it but without being a real unit,not to mention a war film i need to find and watch.cheers i know somebody on here would be able to supply a solution to my reticence of portraying a real unit,now to find the bits i need.

Going from the originals that were so very kindly given by the Angels lads, I was thinking of getting some repro' ones made up for others to use if we were going to 'go big' and do "The Dogs" as an airsoft unit. All the original D.G.L.I insignia is the printed cloth type if insignia (like the Polar Bear div' patches on PBI's 'Hallams' impressions), rather than embroidered felt type.

I'd be happy to order a set if you did get them done.

now that seems exactly what im looking for,something with a genuin look to it but without being a real unit,not to mention a war film i need to find and watch.cheers i know somebody on here would be able to supply a solution to my reticence of portraying a real unit,now to find the bits i need.

Going from the originals that were so very kindly given by the Angels lads, I was thinking of getting some repro' ones made up for others to use if we were going to 'go big' and do "The Dogs" as an airsoft unit. All the original D.G.L.I insignia is the printed cloth type if insignia (like the Polar Bear div' patches on PBI's 'Hallams' impressions), rather than embroidered felt type.

I'd be happy to order a set if you did get them done.

ditto,if you know were to get it done i'd love a set and am happy to pay.