I am currently producing a independent film and I am trying to be as accurate as possible (to please the type of people who are on this forum) and I can't figure out what to call this particular insignia. I have looked everywhere for it and can't find it. Below you see that vertical insignia on the British General's lapel? What is that? Your help would be much appreciated.
"That" is the British Army general officer collart tabs, gold on red. And the man in your picture is General Sir Robert Napier Hubert Campbell (Bobbie) Bray GBE KCB DSO and bar (1908–1983) who was deputy Supreme Commander Europe of NATO's Allied Command Europe from 1967 to 1970, Lt-Col from 1942 to 1945.
I think the technical name is a gorget and in olden days they were on hte lapel so a piece of armour hung from them to protect the throat area against sword blows...... BTW they come in different colours red for infantry, maroon or medics, light blue for AAC so get the right colour!!!!
Regret I was right...still called gorget patches..... Gorget patches The scarlet patches still worn on each side of the collar of the tunics of British army generals, and of senior staff officers (in red, blue, crimson, yellow, or green according to branch) are called "gorget patches" in reference to this article of armour. RAF officer cadets wear white gorget patches on their service dress and mess-dress uniforms. Very similar collar patches are worn by British army officer cadets at Sandhurst on the standup collars of their dark-blue "Number One" dress uniforms. These features of modern uniforms are a residual survival from the earlier practice of suspending the actual gorgets from ribbons attached to buttons on both collars of the uniform. Such buttons were often mounted on a patch of coloured cloth or gold embroidery.
Well they call them Gorget patches on the website and they still wear them today. The embroidery kinda looks like a skinny lion.
