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(Above) - 13 (Air Assault) Support Regiment RLC - 16 (Air Assault) Brigade With thanks to Alan Woolley BELOW - Royal Logistic Corps Stable Belt with Royal Army Medical Corps buckle The RLC/RAMC combo came from a local surplus store who stated it was brought in by a female. With thanks Ian Drummer BELOW - Royal Logistic Corps with Divers buckle A Divers trade stable belt worn by personnel of the Port & maritime unit Marchwood. With thanks Paul Johnson |
Soldiers wear the gold clip fastening stable belt. Officers are to wear the leather buckle side fastening stable belt, with the buckle worn over the left hip and fastening straps pointing backwards
"I was RAOC then RLC, I really like the idea of wearing stable belts. It is something that shows of your Corps or Regiment when not wearing your head dress, before the days of the TRF. It could be expensive if you had to buy a belt every time you went to a different brigade. We used to have pioneers who wore the side fastening RLC belt. That upset the officers. The pioneers said it was due to them doing a lot of physical work, bending etc and the ORs belt would dig into their stomach with the metal buckle. I don’t know how long they were allowed to wear the officers belt, Pioneers were considered the odd cousin within the Corps and often a law unto themselves, they were often regiments by themselves and were not located with other RLC trade groups in the big regiments, which often contained a postal courier element, a supply element, a transport element and of course a chef element."
Received with thanks (March 2020)
The female stable belt 5cm in width compared to the male stable belt 6cm in width
The two buckles shown above are from Toye Kenning and Spencer Ltd
Toye Kenning and Spencer Ltd label on inside of stable belt
Rear of buckle Hobson and Son
Label on inside of stable belt Hobson and Son
Officers - top and bottom a gold 5 mm with dark blue separated in the centre by 2 scarlet bands 10 mm wide divided by a dark blue band 3 mm wide. Fastened with tan leather straps.
Soldiers - top and bottom a gold 5 mm with dark blue separated in the centre by scarlet bands 10 mm wide divided by a dark blue band 3 mm wide. Fastened with gold coloured gilt Mazak locket buckle featuring the cap badge in the centre and Royal Logistic Corps embossed around the buckle.
Corps Dress Regulations November 2016