French National tri-colour uniform patches.

Hi Guys.

Here I have a collection of French National uniform patches,sadly they are not as cool or desirable as the ones recently shown,but they're the only French patches I own....so far, but I hope you like them never the less

Hi mate your national flags are really cool' Do you know they are made from WW2 thru current day, something you could get a nice surprise. You may have some different manufacturing, the color of the border is different.

Cocorico !

I totally forget that we have some normal patches too. Absolutly, this the same US Made model which was provided to Free French Forces in WWII. I am trying to get some low visibility patches at the moment.
Jean-Yves

ladrang wrote:Hi mate your national flags are really cool' Do you know they are made from WW2 thru current day, something you could get a nice surprise. You may have some different manufacturing, the color of the border is different.

Thanks Will.

In my haste to post these,I forgot to ask what era they are from, they are all different sizes ,but all have velro backing,I don't know what Jackets they would go on

My guess is 90's issue,but that is just a guess,

JYN wrote:Cocorico !

I totally forget that we have some normal patches too. Absolutly, this the same US Made model which was provided to Free French Forces in WWII. I am trying to get some low visibility patches at the moment.
Jean-Yves

Cocorico indeed , do you know what era these are from,as before velcro backed,and all different sizes,thanks JY.

Hi I have found a nice from french soldier in Ex-yougoslavia in 1990's. I have bought some french shoulder flag in the french PX when I was in Bosnia, I will try to dig out to post 'em

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ladrang wrote:Hi I have found a nice from french soldier in Ex-yougoslavia in 1990's. I have bought some french shoulder flag in the french PX when I was in Bosnia, I will try to dig out to post 'em

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Many thanks Will, cool story about the Bosnian PX.

Is this soldier wearing an F2 jacket,as i have an F2 but mine does not have a velcro patch to attach a Tri-Colour to it?

Nice one ,cheers Mate

Hi mate, you need to sewn on. When I was in Bosnia, the french soldiers went to the taylor shop to sewn their ribbons, velcro on their shirt or jacket. I means you will need to do the same thing

ladrang wrote:Hi mate, you need to sewn on. When I was in Bosnia, the french soldiers went to the taylor shop to sewn their ribbons, velcro on their shirt or jacket. I means you will need to do the same thing

Aha,I see ,that makes sense as there is no velcro on an F2 Jacket sleeve, I'm no good at sewing...Hmmm,maybe my wife could do it, very unlikely ,but if I don't ask,I don't get



Thanks for the info Will,nice one Mate

Garry,

As a French National patches fan, you will need this one. One of the low visibility serie (probably four different patches).

Hi I get this one in desert version, I have no idea who wear it,

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JYN wrote:Garry,

As a French National patches fan, you will need this one. One of the low visibility serie (probably four different patches).

Many thanks for showing this one JYN,very cool ,I've not seen any over here,but if I ever do,I will go all out to own it...thanks again

ladrang wrote:Hi I get this one in desert version, I have no idea who wear it,

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Another very cool Patch,that's now on my wish list,

Concerning the last patch, I just find this photo from one soldier of the Battle Group Allobroges. It was taken during a combined operation in the Tag Ab valley last December.

Hi, since nobody asked, I will explain why the colors are reversed.
The patch red, white blue red white blue inverted to prevent the patch to believe tricolor Italian army because this patch is rather blue green, thus preventing it either green, white and red.

It seems logical. Excellent information.

JYN wrote:Concerning the last patch, I just find this photo from one soldier of the Battle Group Allobroges. It was taken during a combined operation in the Tag Ab valley last December.

Jyn, that's a very good reference pic,thanks for sharing

US0844 wrote:Hi, since nobody asked, I will explain why the colors are reversed.
The patch red, white blue red white blue inverted to prevent the patch to believe tricolor Italian army because this patch is rather blue green, thus preventing it either green, white and red.

Good information,to be honest it never really crossed my mind,but I'm glad that you have cleared this up, and it makes sense

Another low visibility version.

Nice pics

Cool patches guys, When you say these were worn from ww2 onwards... what year was the red and blue re added to the flag? As I was under the impression that the French flag in ww2 was a white centre stripe with white stripes either side

...sorry bad joke I know but I couldnt help myself

To re-open an old subject , it would appear that the French forces do still wear the Tri-colour patch, not just the subdued version.Which is good as my patches are still relevant for this campaign.

Great reference photos, Gary. The FAMAS always catches my attention in French military photos.

Ben wrote:Great reference photos, Gary. The FAMAS always catches my attention in French military photos.

Thanks Ben, yes the Famas is a unique shaped weapon!!

JYN wrote:
Another low visibility version.

french special force operator...

Hello

When you study the pictures of the conflict, you will see many differents French national patches !

In Lebanon in the late '70s, the French army still had the WWII embroided patches in use.
During the ex-Yougoslavia conflict, appeared "new" patches (same drawing but current manufacturing, not US).

And since then, the patch is still in use. Some are local made, some a made by retailers, that's why you can meet differents shades of colors in the low-visibility.

You can also notice that the French Air Force as the same patch, but usually the background of the "tab" where France is written is in light blue instead of white.

nico62fr wrote:Hello

When you study the pictures of the conflict, you will see many differents French national patches !

In Lebanon in the late '70s, the French army still had the WWII embroided patches in use.
During the ex-Yougoslavia conflict, appeared "new" patches (same drawing but current manufacturing, not US).

And since then, the patch is still in use. Some are local made, some a made by retailers, that's why you can meet differents shades of colors in the low-visibility.

You can also notice that the French Air Force as the same patch, but usually the background of the "tab" where France is written is in light blue instead of white.

Salut Nico, that is a very interesting history of the Tri-colour, I intend to add some low visibility patches to my ever expanding French collection, but I think I will always be a big fan of the patch in it's original and true colours..Viva la france

Hello,

Just get this low visibility version by an ex-gendarme who was in a POMLT in Aghanistan by 2010.

Jean-Yves