Stable belt

A stable belt is a striped coloured belt worn at times by the armed forces of the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and a few other countries including Denmark, Brazil and Lebanon. The stripes vary by regiment and corps, identifying the wearer's unit. In Brazil and Lebanon they are known as gymnastic belts.

A pre-2007 stable belt of the Royal Air Force. Newer versions feature a metal decorative buckle.

The term "stable belt" originates from when UK cavalrymen would place the surcingle around the waist when cleaning the stables and tending to their horses.[1] In the 1950s they spread to all branches of the armed forces, adding a splash of colour and individuality to the drab khaki working uniforms. Initially they were resisted by many senior officers, who saw them as too individualistic, but they soon became accepted throughout the UK forces, and spread to the forces of a number of other countries. The "gymnastic belt" of some countries has a similar appearance and purpose, with a name reflecting its origin in physical training equipment. Sword belts of similar appearance are used on ceremonial occasions by some military forces.[2][3]

Australia

The Australian Army adopted the stable belt in the late 1970s. It was removed from service in 1995,[4] but reintroduced in 2017.[5]

Brazil
Firefighters Corps of Paraná - 1923.
Brazilian Firefighters Cadets - 2009.

In Brazil, the gymnastic belt (Portuguese: cinto ginástico) is one of the most traditional elements of the uniforms of the Military Firefighters Corps. It has been used with few modifications since 1887.[6] Made of cotton and leather, earlier examples were reinforced to serve as climbing harnesses. Modern gymnastic belts are of lighter construction and only worn as ceremonial item. There are two versions of the gymnastics belt:

For Officers:
The belt is red with a horizontal stripe in blue, with silver-coloured metal buckles. In the 1960s, the leather components were white.
For other ranks (sergeants, corporals, and privates):
The belt is red, with gold-coloured metal buckles.

Denmark

The Danish Army, Home Guard, and Air Force all use stable belts. The Danish Defence's close co-operation with the British Army of the Rhine in the 1950s created the interest in a similar belt for the Guard Hussar Regiment, which was introduced in 1968.[7] In the late 1970s it was decided to allow stable belts for all regiments in Denmark. The design of the belt would be based on the colours of the regiment, and a colour to signify their role. To show the transition between role and regiment colours, a thin line was introduced, there is however no system with these.[8][9]

  • Red: Combat troops
  • Blue: Signal troops
  • Gray: HMAK

The Danish armed forces have had a total of 43 different stable belts, of which about sixteen remain in use. Only the standard black stable belt is issued, other belts have to be purchased individually, so are neither regulation nor compulsory.[10]

In use

Disbanded regiments

Lebanon

Lebanese firefighters (الدفاع المدني, i.e. "Civil Defense") use the same type of gymnastic belt as used by firefighters in Brazil.

New Zealand

The various Corps and Regiments of the New Zealand Army wear stable belts. Most corps wear the same patterns of belt as their counterparts in the British Army[11][12]

Corps and regiments
 
New Zealand Corps of Officer Cadets Royal New Zealand Artillery Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps
 
Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals
 
Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment New Zealand Special Air Service New Zealand Intelligence Corps
 
Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps Royal New Zealand Dental Corps
 
Royal New Zealand Chaplains Department New Zealand Army Legal Service Corps of Royal New Zealand Military Police
 
Royal New Zealand Army Education Corps New Zealand Army Physical Training Corps Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps
Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles;

The QAMR belt is black with a central amber stripe as used by the original Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles, they are also the colours of the Taranaki, where the unit's foundations were laid in the early 1860s.

Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment;

Personnel of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment, with the exception of those serving in Territorial Force battalion groups, wear the regimental belt of the Durham Light Infantry, being rifle green with two thin red stripes. The belt was adopted as the RNZIR Corps belt in 1970. The Durham Light Infantry regimental belt was given to the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment when it relieved the 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry at Sarawak, Borneo in May 1966.

New Zealand Special Air Service;

Originates from belt worn by the British Special Air Service. It was first worn in 1965 by 1 Detachment, 1 Ranger Squadron NZSAS. The colours originate from a concept by David Stirling integrating the Oxford Blue and Cambridge Blue.[13]

Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment;

The Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment stable belt is blue with a silver buckle displaying the regimental badge surrounded by the regimental motto "Ma Nga Hua Tu-Tangata" (By our actions we are known).

Reserve Infantry Battalions

The reserve battalions of the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment retain their own patterns of stable belt. In 2013 the reserve battalions were amalgamated, reducing their number from six to three. No decision was made on the future of the various battalions' belts.[11]

 
2nd (Canterbury, and Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast) Battalion 3rd (Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly's Own) and Northland) Battalion 4th (Otago and Southland) Battalion
Mackenzie tartan
 
5th (Wellington West Coast and Taranaki) Battalion (Officers and Warrant Officers) 5th (Wellington West Coast and Taranaki) Battalion (Other soldiers) 6th (Hauraki) Battalion
 
7th (Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay) Battalion


2nd (Canterbury, and Nelson-Marlborough and West Coast) Battalion;

Rifle green, as worn by the Battalions Allied Regiment, The Royal Irish Rangers.

3rd (Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly's Own) and Northland) Battalion;

Two sets of thin red and white stripes on a black background, adopted in 1995. Originally the belt consisted of three evenly-sized stripes of red, black, and white, and were based on the regiment's colours.

4th (Otago and Southland) Battalion;

The Otago and Southland Regimental belt is that of Queen's Own Highlanders, and is the pattern of the McKenzie tartan.

5th (Wellington West Coast and Taranaki) Battalion;

Two separate belts are worn; officers and warrant officers wear a black belt with central stripes of red, green, yellow, mauve, and red, while soldiers below the rank of warrant officer wear a black belt with central stripes of yellow, red, green, and mauve. The belts adopted in 1973 were based on the Royal Hampshire Regiment with colours stemming from the regimental colours and the colours of the lace and facings on the uniforms of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment.

6th (Hauraki) Battalion;

Thames blue with a gold strip in the middle, derived from the old Royal Warwickshire Regiment which in turn is derived from the old 6th Regiment of Foot. The 6th Foot were once charged with guarding the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London; hence the blue of the belt represents the Thames river and the gold stripe, the crown jewels.[14] The belt was introduced in 1975 and has a buckle in worn centre which has the Regiments badge mounted.

7th (Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay) Battalion;

The 7th Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Battalion Group inherited the York and Lancaster Regiment stable belt. The belt is composed of maroon bands at the top and bottom (16mm wide), with a centre stripe of black (18mm wide) with a silver stripe above and gold stripe (each 6mm wide) below the centre strip. The York and Lancaster Regiment was allied to the Wellington Regiment in 1913 in recognition of the York and Lancs (65th of Foot) 19 year participation in the New Zealand Wars.

United Kingdom
See also: Uniforms of the British Armed Forces
Royal Observer Corps (Circa1995).
Royal Navy officer wearing a blue stable belt, 2020

A stable belt is a wide webbing belt, usually a single solid colour or horizontally striped in two or more different colours. It is worn around the waist and when worn with PCS it is worn through the trouser belt loops. In the British Army and Royal Marines, when worn with barrack dress, the belt is placed either through the belt loops of trousers or a skirt, or over a jersey. In the Royal Air Force (RAF), it is worn with service working dress (No. 2 dress) either covering the top of the trousers (or skirt) and the lower part of the shirt, or through the belt loops if they can accommodate the belt's width. Unlike the Army's, the RAF belt is never worn over a jersey. The original cavalry stable belts buckled at the side to avoid chafing the soldier's stomach as he bent down during stable work, and to avoid marking or catching on the horse's harness, but many stable belts are now clipped at the front, sometimes behind a metal belt plate (usually bearing the badge of the regiment), although a few regiments such as the Light Infantry clip their stable belts at the front with the original two leather straps. Many units, however, continue to use the traditional method of securing the belt using two leather straps and metal buckles at the left-hand side.

Today, every regiment and corps of the British Army has its own stable belt, often very colourful. The Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force also have their own. The Royal Navy formerly rarely wore stable belts, unless working in a tri-service environment; they are now issued as a standard piece of uniform with the new Royal Navy uniform RNPCS replacing the old No. 4s. Stable belts are worn with most styles of informal dress, but not with full dress, service dress or mess dress. Stable belts for soldiers are purchased by individual service personnel, not issued, so are theoretically neither regulation nor compulsory, but since most personnel own one they are effectively uniform items in the Army.

These belts are shown in cross section, the stripes actually being horizontal as worn, and are actually considerably wider than shown, although the stripes are shown in correct proportion. Where belts are asymmetric, the left-hand side of the illustration is the uppermost as worn.

Cavalry/armoured regiments
 
Life Guards Blues and Royals
 
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Royal Dragoon Guards
 
Queen's Royal Hussars 9th/12th Royal Lancers King's Royal Hussars
 
Light Dragoons Queen's Royal Lancers Royal Tank Regiment
 
Royal Yeomanry[15] Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry Royal Wessex Yeomanry[16]
 
 
Queen's Own Yeomanry

Infantry regiments (current)
 
Foot Guards Royal Regiment of Scotland Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
 
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Royal Anglian Regiment
 
Yorkshire Regiment Mercian Regiment Royal Welsh
 
Royal Irish Regiment Parachute Regiment Royal Gurkha Rifles
 
The Rifles Special Air Service Royal Gibraltar Regiment

Corps
 
Royal Horse Artillery Royal Artillery Royal Engineers
 
Royal Corps of Signals Army Air Corps Royal Army Chaplains' Department
 
Royal Logistic Corps Royal Army Medical Corps Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
 
Adjutant General's Corps
(Staff and Personnel Support)[17]		 Adjutant General's Corps
(Royal Military Police)[17]		 Adjutant General's Corps
(Military Provost Staff)[17]
 
Adjutant General's Corps
(Educational and Training Services)[17]		 Adjutant General's Corps
(Army Legal Services)[17]		 Adjutant General's Corps
(Military Provost Guard Service)
 
Royal Army Veterinary Corps Small Arms School Corps Royal Army Dental Corps
 
Intelligence Corps Royal Army Physical Training Corps Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
 
Royal Corps of Army Music
 
Queen's Gurkha Engineers Queen's Gurkha Signals Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment
 
Honourable Artillery Company[18]

Sub-units
 
1 Regiment RHA
 
 
 
4 Regiment RA 5 Regiment RA 29 Commando Regiment RA
 
B Battery RHA E Battery RHA F (Sphinx) Parachute Battery RHA
 
G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) RHA I Parachute Battery (Bull's Troop) RHA K (Hondeghem) Battery RA
 
L (Néry) Battery RHA N Battery (The Eagle Troop) RHA O Battery (The Rocket Troop) RHA
 
P Battery (The Dragon Troop) RA Q (Sanna's Post) Battery RA
 
 
4/73 (Sphinx) Special Observation Post Battery RA 38 (Seringapatam) Battery RA 46 (Talavera) Battery RA
 
53 (Louisburg) Battery RA 129 (Dragon) Battery RA
 
1 Squadron HAC
 2 Squadron HAC
 3 Squadron HAC
 
Signal Squadron HAC
 Corps of Drums HAC
 A (1st City of London) Battery HAC

Training units
 
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
 
Aberdeen Universities Officers Training Corps Birmingham Universities Officers Training Corps Bristol University Officers Training Corps
 
Cambridge University Officers Training Corps City of Edinburgh Universities Officers Training Corps East Midlands Universities Officer Training Corps[19]
Hunting Stewart Tartan
 
Exeter University Officers Training Corps Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities Officers Training Corps Leeds University Officers Training Corps
 
Liverpool University Officers Training Corps Manchester and Salford Universities Officers Training Corps Northumbrian Universities Officers Training Corps
 
Oxford University Officers Training Corps Queen's University Officers Training Corps Sheffield University Officers Training Corps
 
 
Southampton University Officers Training Corps Tayforth Universities Officers Training Corps University of London Officers Training Corps
Hunting Stewart Tartan
 
University of Wales Officers Training Corps
 

Other services
 
Royal Navy Royal Marines Royal Air Force[20]

Cadet units
 
Sea Cadet Corps
Royal Navy Section, Combined Cadet Force		 Sea Cadet Corps (Royal Marines)
Royal Marines Section, Combined Cadet Force		 Army Section, Combined Cadet Force
 
Army Cadet Force Air Training Corps
RAF Section, Combined Cadet Force		 Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets

Other organisations
 
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Royal Corps of Naval Constructors

Former cavalry regiments
 
Royal Horse Guards
 
 
1st King's Dragoon Guards Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) 3rd Carabiniers
                             
 
                                                                         
 
4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
 
Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) 3rd The King's Own Hussars
                                               
                                   
 
4th Queen's Own Hussars 7th Queen's Own Hussars 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
 
 
 
 
9th Queen's Royal Lancers 10th Royal Hussars 11th Hussars
 
 
 
12th Royal Lancers 13th/18th Royal Hussars 14th/20th King's Hussars
 
 
15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers 17th/21st Lancers
                                                                 
 
Queen's Own Hussars Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Royal Hussars
                                         
                       
 
Queen's Royal Lancers (pre-1998)
                                                               

Former Yeomanry regiments

Many of these belts are still worn by sub-units.

 
Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry Bedfordshire Yeomanry Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons
 
                         
 
Berkshire Yeomanry Cheshire Yeomanry[21] City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
                                                         
 
 
3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Derbyshire Yeomanry Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry[22]
 
 
 
East Riding Yeomanry Essex Yeomanry[23] Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
 
                               
                               
 
Flintshire and Denbighshire Yeomanry Glamorgan Yeomanry Hampshire Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry[24] Inns of Court Regiment
 
 
 
Inns of Court & City Yeomanry[25] Kent Yeomanry Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry[26]
 
                                             
 
Lanarkshire Yeomanry Lancashire Hussars Leicestershire Yeomanry
 
 
                     
 
Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry[27] Lothians and Border Horse Lovat Scouts
                                                                                 
 
 
 
Middlesex Yeomanry Norfolk Yeomanry North Irish Horse
 
 
North Somerset Yeomanry North Somerset and Bristol Yeomanry Northamptonshire Yeomanry
                             
                             
 
Northumberland Hussars Pembroke Yeomanry[28] Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry[29]
                               
                                                       
 
Queen's Own Dorset and West Somerset Yeomanry Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars[30] Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry[31]
                           
 
Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry Royal Devon Yeomanry[32] Royal Gloucestershire Hussars[33]
 
                 
                 
 
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry[34] Scottish Horse Scottish Yeomanry[35]
 
Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry[36] Shropshire Yeomanry[37] South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry
                                           
 
Staffordshire Yeomanry Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry[38] Suffolk Yeomanry
                                       
 
 
Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry Surrey Yeomanry Sussex Yeomanry
                           
 
 
Warwickshire Yeomanry West Somerset Yeomanry Westminster Dragoons[39]
 
 
                         
 
Yorkshire Hussars Yorkshire Yeomanry Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse[40]
 
 
                               

Former infantry regiments
 
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Black Watch
                                   
 
Border Regiment The Buffs The Cameronians
Douglas Tartan
 
Cheshire Regiment Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Devonshire Regiment
                             
               
 
Dorset Regiment Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
                                       
                                   
Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Duke of Wellington's Regiment Durham Light Infantry[41]
                 
         
                                       
 
1st East Anglian Regiment 2nd East Anglian Regiment 3rd East Anglian Regiment
                 
                                                         
                                     
 
East Lancashire Regiment East Surrey Regiment East Yorkshire Regiment
         
 
 
Essex Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment Gordon Highlanders
                                     
                                       
Gordon Tartan
 
Green Howards The Highlanders Highland Light Infantry
                         
Gordon Tartan
 
 
2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles King's Own Royal Border Regiment King's Own Royal Regiment
                       
 
King's Own Scottish Borderers King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry King's Regiment
Leslie Tartan
                                       
               
 
King's Regiment (Liverpool) King's Royal Rifle Corps King's Shropshire Light Infantry
 
                           
                                 
 
Lancashire Fusiliers Lancashire Regiment The Light Infantry
 
Loyal Regiment Manchester Regiment Middlesex Regiment
                     
 
Northamptonshire Regiment North Staffordshire Regiment Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
 
 
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
                         
 
Queen's Lancashire Regiment Queen's Own Buffs Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
 
 
Queen's Own Highlanders Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Queen's Regiment
MacKenzie Tartan
                   
 
 
Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment The Rifle Brigade
                   
                     
 
Royal Berkshire Regiment Royal Fusiliers Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
                               
 
Royal Green Jackets Royal Hampshire Regiment Royal Highland Fusiliers
                                                     
MacKenzie Tartan
 
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Royal Irish Fusiliers Royal Irish Rangers
                           
 
 
Royal Leicestershire Regiment Royal Lincolnshire Regiment Royal Norfolk Regiment
                                       
 
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Royal Regiment of Wales Royal Scots
                                               
Hunting Stewart Tartan
 
Royal Scots Fusiliers Royal Sussex Regiment Royal Ulster Rifles
Green Erskine Tartan
 
Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers Royal Welch Fusiliers Seaforth Highlanders
 
 
Sherwood Foresters Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry Somerset Light Infantry
                         
South Lancashire Regiment South Staffordshire Regiment South Wales Borderers
                                     
 
Staffordshire Regiment Suffolk Regiment Ulster Defence Regiment
                                                     
 
 
Welch Regiment West Yorkshire Regiment Wiltshire Regiment
 
Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment Worcestershire Regiment York and Lancaster Regiment

Former volunteer infantry regiments

These stable belts may still be worn by sub-units.

 
Cambridgeshire Regiment Glasgow Highlanders Herefordshire Light Infantry
 
 
 
1st Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers 2nd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers 3rd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Lancastrian Volunteers Leeds Rifles Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Liverpool Scottish London Irish Rifles London Regiment
 
 
 
 
London Rifle Brigade London Scottish[42] 1st Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers
 
 
 
 
2nd Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers 1st Battalion, Mercian Volunteers 2nd Battalion, Mercian Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Monmouthshire Regiment North Irish Militia Northumbrian Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Queen Victoria's Rifles Queen's Westminsters The Rangers
 
 
 
 
Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment Tower Hamlets Rifles Tyneside Scottish
 
 
 
 
Welsh Volunteers 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment 2nd Battalion, Wessex Regiment
 
 
                           
 
1st Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers
                     
                                           
                                           
 
Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment[43]
   

Former corps
 
Adjutant General's Corps (1st Pattern) Army Catering Corps Army Fire Service
                 
                                         
                       
 
Army Legal Corps Military Provost Staff Corps Royal Army Educational Corps
                                                                               
                               
                                                 
 
Royal Army Medical Corps (1st Pattern) Royal Army Ordnance Corps (1st Pattern) Royal Army Ordnance Corps (2nd Pattern)
                     
                                             
 
Royal Army Pay Corps Royal Army Service Corps Royal Corps of Signals (1st Pattern)
                                                     
                                                                     
                                                     
 
Royal Corps of Transport Royal Military Police Royal Pioneer Corps
                                             
 
                           
 
Women's Royal Army Corps
 
Gurkha Military Police Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment
 
 

Former sub-units
 
36 Guided Weapons Regiment RA
47 Guided Weapons Regiment RA		 95 Commando Regiment RA
                   
 

Former training units
 
Welbeck College Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College Mons Officer Cadet School
 
 
Army Apprentices College, Arborfield Army Apprentices College, Chepstow Army Apprentices College, Harrogate
 
 
 
Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps

Former civil defence organisations
 
Royal Observer Corps

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  14. 6 Hauraki Association
  15. Worn by Regimental Headquarters. Squadrons wear old stable belts: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry, and Westminster Dragoons.
  16. Individual squadrons wear old stable belts: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Royal Devon Yeomanry, and Dorset Yeomanry.
  17. When it was formed in 1992, all AGC personnel wore the same stable belt, but the branches gradually won the right to wear the stable belts of their predecessor corps, and today only the Staff and Personnel Support Branch wears the AGC stable belt.
  18. Worn by the RHQ, HQ Squadron and Band only. Other sub-units have their own stable belts.
  19. Sherwood Foresters stable belt with silver stripe to distinguish EMU OTC from its (foster) parent unit.
  20. The RAF Regiment stable belt has the same colours as the general RAF belt; however it features an interlocking RAF Regiment badge.
  21. Now worn by C Squadron, Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry and 80 Signal Squadron.
  22. Now worn by D Squadron, Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry.
  23. Worn by 70 (Essex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals.
  24. Worn by 201 (The Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery, Royal Artillery.
  25. Now worn by 68th (Inns of Court and City Yeomanry) Signal Squadron and the Band of the Royal Yeomanry.
  26. Now worn by C Squadron, Royal Yeomanry and HQ (Kent and County of London Yeomanry) Squadron, 71st Signal Regiment.
  27. Now worn by B Squadron, Royal Yeomanry.
  28. Worn by 224 (Pembrokeshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Royal Logistic Corps.
  29. Now worn by A Squadron, Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
  30. Now worn by 5 Signal Squadron.
  31. Worn by 67th (Queens Own Warwickshire & Worcestershire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron.
  32. Now worn by D Squadron, Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
  33. Now worn by C Squadron, Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
  34. Now worn by A Squadron, Royal Yeomanry and B Squadron, Royal Wessex Yeomanry.
  35. The Scottish Yeomanry (1992-1999) adopted the stable belt of the 15th/19th Kings Royal Hussars following the latters amalgamation. This was decided due to its similarity to the Ayrshire Yeomanry's previous belt.
  36. Now worn by S Squadron, Royal Yeomanry.
  37. Now worn by B Squadron, Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry.
  38. Now worn by A Squadron, Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry.
  39. Now worn by W Squadron, Royal Yeomanry.
  40. Now worn by C Squadron, Queen's Own Yeomanry.
  41. Now worn by the Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
  42. Worn by A (London Scottish) Company, The London Regiment.
  43. Worn by 41st (Princess Louise's Kensington) Signal Squadron (Volunteers).

Sources
  • Jobson, Christopher (2009). Looking Forward, Looking Back: Customs and Traditions of the Australian Army. Wavell Heights, Queensland: Big Sky Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9803251-6-4.
  • Materiel Regulations for The Army, Volume 3, Pamphlet No.16, Optional items of dress, Ministry of Defence, London, 1995
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