- Title:
- Forage cap, peaked, service dress, Control Commission, Germany and British Army of the Rhine, 1949 (c)
- Object name(s):
- forage cap, peaked
- Brief description:
- Forage cap, peaked, service dress, Control Commission, Germany and British Army of the Rhine, 1949 (c). Khaki wool barathea cap with rayon lining, leather chin strap, brass buttons, and gilt metal, die-struck badge with laurel wreath within which are the intertwined unit initials, ‘CCG’. The Control Commission Germany (CCG) consisted of British civil servants and military personnel. It took over aspects of local government, policing, housing and transport in the British occupied zone of north-western Germany. It was assisted in this task by the British Army of the Rhine, formerly the wartime 21st Army Group. This badge was adopted in 1945.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Uniforms
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Chelsea, Temporary Exhibition: Foe to Friend
- Object name:
- forage cap, peaked
- Object number:
- NAM. 1990-04-24-1
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8422ac9d-1467-307c-8d1c-7afa04da36c2, National Army Museum, CC BY-NC
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