Irish Guards Cap Badge

Irish Guards Cap Badge Brass, 1.75" x 1.75" The Irish Guards (Irish: Garda?? na h??ireann) (IG), part of the Guards Division, is a Foot Guards regiment of the British Army. Along with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of only two purely Irish regiments remaining in the British Army. The Irish Guards recruit in Northern Ireland, the Irish neighbourhoods of major British cities, and in the Republic of Ireland (which permits its citizens to enlist in the British forces, but forbids active recruiting.)[1] More recently, the regiment has seen several "non-traditional" recruits, notably Zimbabwean Christopher Muzvuru, who qualified as a piper before becoming one of the regiment's two fatal casualties in Iraq in 2003. Irish Guards officers tend to be drawn from the ranks of graduates of British public schools, particularly those with a Roman Catholic affiliation, such as Ampleforth College, Downside School and Stonyhurst College. Catholic foreign royals or aristocrats, even those with no Irish connection, have often found a home in the Irish Guards. An example is Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. One way to distinguish between the regiments of Foot Guards is the spacing of buttons on the tunic. The Irish Guards have buttons arranged in groups of four. They also have a prominent blue plume on the right side of their bear skins.   Condition:    New   andale andalesell

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