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Tactical Recognition Flashes of the British Army Worn on right sleeve of combat jacket - centre of flash 12cm below the shoulder seam - max dimensions 7cm x 7cm The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards The Queen’s Royal Hussars 9th/12th Royal Lancers Household Division 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (Carbiniers and Greys) The Royal Dragoon Guards (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish) (Prince of Wales’s) The King's Royal Hussars The Light Dragoons The Queen's Royal Lancers 1st Royal Tank Regiment 2nd Royal Tank Regiment Royal Artillery The Princess of Wales's Royal The Royal Irish Regiment Regiment The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment The Yorkshire Regiment (27th(inniskilling) 83rd, 87th Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Corps of Signals The Royal Regiment of Scotland The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers The Royal Anglian Regiment The Mercian Regiment The Royal Welsh (Queen’s and Royal Hampshires) (King’s, Lancashire and Border) (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) and The Ulster Defence Regiment) Corps of Royal Electrical and RHQ Parachute Regiment 1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 3rd Battalion Depot Brigade of Gurkhas The Rifles Army Air Corps The Royal Logistic Corps Royal Army Medical Corps Adjutant General's Corps Adjutant General’s Corps The Parachute Regiment The Parachute Regiment The Parachute Regiment The Parachute Regiment Mechanical Engineers (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) (Military Police) Additional TRFs worn only in 16 Air Assault Brigade MPGS Adjutant General's Corps Adjutant General's Corps Adjutant General's Corps Adjutant General's Corps Royal Army Veterinary Corps Small Arms School Corps Army Physical Training Corps Queen Alexandra’s Royal Corps of Army Music HQ 16 Air Assault Brigade Pathfinder Platoon RAF Detachments (Military Provost Staff) (Military Provost Guard Service) (Educational Training Services) (Army Legal Services) Army Nursing Corps Specialist TRFs Movement Staff Special Investigation Branch Joint NBC Regiment (1RTR) Joint NBC Regiment (RAF) The Royal Yeomanry The Royal Wessex Yeomanry The Royal Mercian and Lancastrian The Queens’ Own Yeomanry 4th Battalion Media Operations Group Yeomanry The Parachute Regiment (Volunteers) Independent Deployable Formations AC64304(A3) AC64304(A2) Produced for Defence Publicity (Army) by DCIC Design, London www.army.mod.uk April 2009 Badge artwork supplied by PS12(A).

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