The Rifles Stable Belt

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Sizes: Standard width 6.5 cm; small (fits waist up to 30"), medium (fits waist up to 36"), large (to fit waist up to 40") and XL (to fit waist up to 44"). Colour: navy blue. ACF Stable Belt

caption id="attachment_6022" align="alignnone" width="1500"] New 2017 Royal Navy Stable Belt[/caption] Individual squadrons wear old stable belts: Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Royal Devon Yeomanry, and Dorset Yeomanry. Military Firefighters Corps; which is used with few modifications, since 1887. [1] At first it was rather reinforced, made of cotton and leather, to serve as climbing harness. Today it is mild and only serves as a ceremonial item.Now worn by C Squadron, Royal Yeomanry and HQ (Kent and County of London Yeomanry) Squadron, 71st Signal 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. caption id="attachment_6032" align="alignnone" width="1500"] New 2017 Royal Regiment of Scotland Stable Belt[/caption]

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. 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. Some obvious others not. The QDG have a nice little myth that the SAS chose 'their' colour after being forced to borrow the QDG belts in the desert of WW2 (I refer you to the date of the introduction of modern stable belts).

The Rifles Stable Belt.

Available in the following sizes: Standard width 6.5 cm; small (to fit up to 32' waist), medium (to fit up to 36' waist), large (to fit up to 40' waist) and XL (to fit up to 43' waist). New Pattern Royal Navy Stable Belt The Danish Army, Home Guard, and Air Force all use stable belts. The Danish armed forces have had in total 42 different stable belts. Today there are only sixteen in use.