Did the AVRE crews have tank berets or were they equipped like engineers?
Were they engineers trained to operate a tank or tank crew trained to be engineers?
Good question. Hadn't thought about that, was going to go with black as a default option.
There's quite a few photographs of members of the Assault Squadrons wearing what look like black berets with RE Cap badges.
That said I've also seen photos of a lighter beret possibly khaki, which seems odd as I would have presumed that anyone not wearing a Para, RAC or Marine beret woud have been wearing the GS cap. Then again they could just be nattily worn GS caps, which were of course khaki.
Just had a rummage around Google. Seen pics of blokes wearing both black berets, light berets and GS cap. Some in the same picture!
Wiki says AVRE had a demolition NCO in addition to the crew. Think I might do two in black and one khaki, just because...
Just did an image search for the GS cap and it seems the side cap was early war, later on a very beret looking khaki option.
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