Royal Army Pay Corps cap badge produced as a restrike of the pattern worn between 1929 and 1953 by the Royal Army Pay Corps of the British Army. This British Army corps cap badge displays the recognised RAPC device in clear relief, incorporating the Royal Crest — a lion statant guardant on an Imperial King’s Crown — as the principal device, mounted above a scroll bearing the corps motto “Fide et Fiducia” (Latin: “In Faith and Trust”). The Royal Crest and scroll are rendered in bi-metal, with the crown and lion in gilding metal and the scroll in white metal, consistent with the production standard for this badge pattern. The King’s Crown surmounting the lion is consistent with manufacture and wear during the reigns of King George V, King Edward VIII, and King George VI, distinguishing this pattern from the Queen’s Crown examples introduced following the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952.
The Royal Army Pay Corps was formed in April 1920 through the amalgamation of the Army Pay Department and the Army Pay Corps — the former an officer-only establishment originating in the Army Pay Department of 1878, the latter a corps of other ranks formed in 1893 to support its work — the “Royal” prefix having been conferred in recognition of the corps’ valuable service throughout the First World War. The original badge adopted in 1920 incorporated the monogram “RAPC” surmounted by the Royal Crest, without a motto. In 1929, King George V approved a redesign of the badge in recognition of the corps’ continued service, at which point the monogram was replaced by the scroll bearing the motto “Fide et Fiducia”, reflecting the position of trust occupied by the corps in administering the pay and, from 1925, all financial matters of the British Army. The redesigned badge was retained without alteration until the Queen’s Crown pattern was introduced in 1953. The Royal Army Pay Corps continued under this designation until 1992, when it was amalgamated into the newly formed Adjutant General’s Corps as the Staff and Personnel Support Branch.
Manufactured in bi-metal, with the Royal Crest in gilding metal and the scroll in white metal, this restrike example provides a sharply defined representation of the 1929 pattern RAPC headdress badge as worn through the Second World War and the early post-war period. Royal Army Pay Corps King’s Crown cap badges are collected as examples of Second World War and early post-war British Army corps militaria, headdress insignia of the administrative and financial corps of the British Army, and uniform hardware of the wartime and immediate post-war British Army.
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