Cap badge
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A cap badge, also known as head badge or hat badge, is a badge worn on uniform headgear and distinguishes the wearer's nationality and/or organisation. The wearing of cap badges is a convention common
Cap badge of the United States Navy on the left and cap badges of the French Navy (Marine Nationale) on the right.
British Army cap badges at Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley. View at max resolution to read labels.
The cap badge of a senior RAF officer.
Cloth version of the cap badge of RAF other ranks. This version is worn on caps. Prior to the 1990s, RAF other ranks wore metal cap badges on peaked caps. The RAF Police still continue this practice on white-topped caps
Peaked cap
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A peaked cap, peaked hat, service cap, barracks cover, forage cap, or combination cap is a form of headgear worn by the armed forces of many nations, as well as many uniformed civilian organisations s
Cap badge
…Home Service Helmet or Wolseley Helmet: above the centre between the wearer's eyebrows. Service dress cap: above the centre point between the wearer's eyebrows. Beret: above the left eye…
An assortment of peaked caps from several naval and maritime forces
Members of the Hanseatic Legion and the Hamburg Citizen Militia wearing peaked caps, 1813
Air Marshal Mark Binskin wearing a peaked cap (2010)
Diagram of peaked caps used by the Austrian Armed Forces (labels in German)