The Life Guards Life Guards Service Dress Cap

The officer-pattern cap matches Service Dress in khaki drab, with a ¼-inch brown-leather chinstrap, gilt Life Guards buttons, regimental badge and leather-edged peak.

The common male-officer Service Dress cap is cut like the forage cap in khaki barathea matching the issue No. 2 Dress uniform, subject to the more-specific Part 4 exceptions.

Outside the General Staff and any more-specific authorised exception, officers and soldiers wear no separate band on the Service Dress cap.

The generic soldier Service Dress cap uses dimensions similar to the officer pattern with additional crown stiffening.

It may be worn on appropriate undress occasions without medals and is now unusual when the Sam Browne is worn.

Mounted soldiers may wear the Service Dress cap as an alternative to forage cap or crash hat.

The cited source passage supplies the service dress cap specification for this article.

Goldings’ WordPress catalogue records the customer-facing parent name “Life Guards No.2 Hat”.

Khaki Service Dress cap with brown leather chinstrap and Life Guards fittings.