Upon receiving a British Army jacket last year, I was puzzled as to what the flash on the right shoulder was. I eventually found out what it was, but was surprised to know there are so many different flashes out there.

So, for the convenience of everyone here, (especially the British militaria collectors) I researched and uploaded images of all known TRFs used by the British Army today. Some units such as SAS do not have TRFs.

Note -- most of these were drawn in paint, since they are fairly simple. However; some of the more intricate flashes are super-sized images of that TRF that has been blown up from a thumbnail, so the resolution may not be perfect, but should provide a clear enough picture to help determine the identity of said TRF.

The following units had no information available, meaning they either do not have a TRF, or a current TRF was not found at the time of this posting.

Units without TRF: Royal Army Chaplains Corps, Army Physical Training Corps, Small Arms School Corps, Corps of Army Music, General Service Corps, Intelligence Corps, Army Air Corps (as a whole, excluding shown 9th Regiment TRF) and the SAS.

Household Cavalry


The Blues and Royals and The Life Guards

Royal Armoured Corps -- Heavy Cavalry


Queen's Dragoon Guards


Royal Scots Dragoon Guards


Royal Dragoon Guards

Royal Armoured Corps -- Light Cavalry


Queen's Royal Hussars


9th/12th Lancers


King's Royal Hussars


Light Dragoons


Queen's Royal Lancers

The Royal Tank Regiment


1st & 2nd Royal Tank Regt

Royal Armoured Corps -- The Yeomanry

Royal Yeomanry


Queen's Own Yeomanry


Royal Mercian & Lancastrian Yeomanry


Royal Wessex Yeomanry

Infantry -- Foot Guards


Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards and Welsh Guards

Infantry -- Line Infantry & Rifles

Royal Regiment of Scotland


Princess of Wales's Regiment


Duke of Lancaster's Regiment


Royal Regiment of Fusiliers


1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment


2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment


3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment


Yorkshire Regiment


Royal Welsh


Mercian Regiment


Royal Irish


1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment


2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment


3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment


4th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment


Royal Ghurka Rifles


The Rifles

Support & Services


Royal Artillery


Royal Engineers


Royal Signal Corps


Royal Army Dental Corps


Royal Army Medical Corps


Royal Army Veterinary Corps


Royal Logistic Corps


Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers


Adjutant General's Corps (SPS Branch shown for example, other flashes are issued for neccessary branch, ie. MPGS, ETS, ALS)


Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

Other Branches of the Armed Forces


Royal Air Force


Royal Navy

Miscellaneous TRF's


Pathfinder Platoon


13 Air Assault Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps


7 Air Assault Battalion, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers


9th Regiment, Army Air Corps

Great posting Ben!

This is a very helpful chart.

Thanks. I had hoped others would find this as useful as I did, so that's why I shared it. I didn't realise there were so many TRFs!

Great reference Ben.

Thought I would start adding some of mine

First up.

The Queens Royal Lancers.

7 Armoured Brigade.

Nothing better than real examples to add for reference. Thanks, Gary!

Ben wrote:Nothing better than real examples to add for reference. Thanks, Gary!

Thanks Ben,

I will post more in this section as and when I get more examples, I will have to go through my collection and take some pics

Great reference ben, it s really helpful, thanks


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I'm not a collector of UK stuff, but that's an interesting guide !

P-E wrote:I'm not a collector of UK stuff, but that's an interesting guide !

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On behalf of Ben ...thanks, he he did a good job of creating this guide.

And why do you not collect UK stuff, perhaps you need to delve into the "dark side of the force", you may be surprised, it's very cheap,but equally collectable

Hi gary, I m sure he need a guide, you will be very happy to introduce him in this world.

May the force be with you

If Brit kit is "the dark side" of the collecting world, I must be the collecting equivalent of a Sith lord! Where is my red lightsaber?

ladrang wrote:Hi gary, I m sure he need a guide, you will be very happy to introduce him in this world.

May the force be with you

Yes indeed, I will guide him along the path, to the lightside.....which I believe is currently in that little Cafe, just behind the landing pad,on Tattoine...sadly they are shut at the moment for refurbishment


May the force with you you to, my young Padawan learner

Ben wrote:If Brit kit is "the dark side" of the collecting world, I must be the collecting equivalent of a Sith lord! Where is my red lightsaber?

Ben,Check behind the sofa, that's like a Blackhole/Vortex in my house, anything goes missing that's where it all ends up...it's a weird freaky deaky wormhole in my living room Man!!!!!

It's not there...I'll have to find it. Jedi thieves...

Ben wrote:It's not there...I'll have to find it. Jedi thieves...

Nah Mate,it's them bloody Jawas, if it aint tied down they swipe it, I've had real trouble with these little freaks lately, I caught one the other day, trying to steal one of my Desert parkas off the washing line, but to be fair it does look a little like a Jedi cloak I suppose

Hi Gary, really nice badges, I like so much UK airborne wings

Welsh regiment.

ladrang wrote:Hi Gary, really nice badges, I like so much UK airborne wings

I thought you would like these....I believe you have some exactly like these

Easy Gee wrote:

I would like to know which regiment is??

Easy Gee wrote:

ladrang wrote:Hi Gary, really nice badges, I like so much UK airborne wings

I thought you would like these....I believe you have some exactly like these

Yes I have with your help

Hi Will.

It's a Green Howards TRF, this one is on a 85 pattern Combat Jacket, but it is still worn today on modern combat clothing

Cheers mate

Ok thanks for the information

Just for you Gary....

Heres a couple of cool British patch variations worn by Aussies from my collection.

First up British 4th Armoured Brigade, this particular patch is Australian made (but identical to the British one) this was worn by members of 2/14th lighthorse who were attached to the 4th Armd in Iraq on OBG(W)4



And a cool theatre made variation from Iraq AMTG-2



Another theatre made patch this time for UK 20th Armoured brigade Iraq AMTG-2




And a few Aussie made variations of UK 7th Armoured brigade, worn by Aussie UAV teams attached to 7th Armd in Iraq, not sure why there is two types of subdued patches, My guess is one may be a rejected version

Thanks Lucas.

Very Cool Oz patches, never seen any like this before, so thanks for sharing these.

Very useful for future ref: purposes.

Nice one mate, Gary

No worries mate I thought you would like them Although not actually British patches but still related