Stable belt

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Clip art of a Stable Belt of the Royal Air Force
Clip art of a Stable Belt of the Royal Air Force

A stable belt is an item of uniform used in the armed forces of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.

Originally, stable belts were worn by cavalrymen in the working dress they used for cleaning the stables and tending to their horses, but in the 1950s they spread to all branches of the armed forces, adding a splash of colour and individuality to the drab khaki working uniforms. Initially they were resisted by many senior officers, who saw them as too individualistic, but they soon became accepted throughout the forces.

A stable belt is a wide webbing belt, usually a single solid colour or horizontally striped in two or more different colours. It is worn around the waist, either in the belt loops of trousers or a skirt or over a jersey. The original cavalry stable belts buckled at the side to avoid chafing the soldier's stomach as he bent down during stable work, but many stable belts are now clipped at the front, sometimes behind a metal belt plate (usually bearing the badge of the regiment), although a few regiments such as the Light Infantry clip their stable belts at the front with the original two leather straps. A large number of units, however, continue to use the traditional method of securing the belt using two leather straps and metal buckles at the left-hand side.

Today, every regiment and corps of the British Army has its own stable belt, often very colourful. The Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force also have their own. They are worn with most styles of informal dress, but not with formal (No.2 or No.1) dress. Stable belts are purchased by individual service personnel, not issued, so are theoretically neither regulation nor compulsory, but since virtually everyone does own one they are effectively uniform items.

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[edit] United Kingdom

Note that these belts are shown in cross section, the stripes actually being horizontal as worn, and are actually considerably wider than shown, although the stripes are shown in correct proportion. Where belts are asymmetrical, the left-hand side of the illustration is the uppermost as worn.

[edit] Cavalry/Armoured regiments

 
Life Guards Blues and Royals
   
     
 
1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Royal Dragoon Guards
 
                                                             
     
 
Queen's Royal Hussars 9th/12th Royal Lancers King's Royal Hussars
                           
                                                   
     
 
The Light Dragoons Queen's Royal Lancers Royal Tank Regiment
     
                                                               
     
 
RHQ Royal Yeomanry Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry Royal Wessex Yeomanry
         

Squadrons wear belts of Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry, Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry or Westminster Dragoons
                             




Individual squadrons wear belts of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Royal Devon Yeomanry or Dorset Yeomanry
 
Queen's Own Yeomanry
         

[edit] Infantry regiments (new system)

 
Foot Guards Royal Regiment of Scotland Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
     
     
 
Duke of Lancaster's Regiment Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Royal Anglian Regiment
 
     
                                                         
 
Yorkshire Regiment Mercian Regiment
(forms in August 2007)		 Royal Welsh
                     
 
                                             
 
Royal Irish Regiment The Parachute Regiment Royal Gurkha Rifles
                                   
 
                                           
 
The Rifles Special Air Service Royal Gibraltar Regiment
 
 
                   

[edit] Corps

 
Royal Horse Artillery Royal Artillery Royal Engineers
                 
                     
               
 
Royal Corps of Signals Army Air Corps Royal Army Chaplains' Department
                     
     
     
 
Royal Logistic Corps Royal Army Medical Corps Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
                         
     
                             
 
Adjutant General's Corps Royal Army Veterinary Corps Small Arms School Corps
     
                     
                 
 
Royal Army Dental Corps Intelligence Corps Army Physical Training Corps
                 
                                       
                                               
 
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps Corps of Army Music
                                 
                 
 
Queen's Gurkha Engineers Queen's Gurkha Signals Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment
                                               
         
                                                     
 
Honourable Artillery Company

RHQ and HQ squadron

 Honourable Artillery Company

1 squadron

 Honourable Artillery Company

2 squadron
                                           
 
 
Honourable Artillery Company

3 squadron

 Honourable Artillery Company

Signal squadron

 Honourable Artillery Company

Corps of Drums
 
 
     
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Royal Jersey Militia
 
 
 

[edit] Sub-units

 
29 Commando Regiment RA I Parachute Battery RHA
                           
                 
 

[edit] Training units

 
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
           
 
Aberdeen Universities Officers Training Corps Birmingham Universities Officers Training Corps Bristol University Officers Training Corps
     
                         
 
 
Cambridge University Officers Training Corps City of Edinburgh Universities Officers Training Corps East Midlands Universities Officers Training Corps
 
Hunting Stewart Tartan
 
 
Exeter University Officers Training Corps Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities Officers Training Corps Leeds University Officers Training Corps
 
                                   
                       
 
Liverpool University Officers Training Corps Manchester and Salford Universities Officers Training Corps Northumbrian Universities Officers Training Corps
     
                                                         
                             
 
Oxford University Officers Training Corps Queen's University Officers Training Corps Sheffield University Officers Training Corps
 
 
 
 
Southampton University Officers Training Corps Tayforth Universities Officers Training Corps University of London Officers Training Corps
                 
Hunting Stewart Tartan
                                 
 
University of Wales Officers Training Corps
 
 

[edit] Cadet Units
Army Section, Combined Cadet Force Army Cadet Force
                               
                                 ;

[edit] Other services

 
Royal Navy Royal Marines Royal Air Force
 
                                           
                                 

[edit] Former cavalry regiments

 
Royal Horse Guards
 
 
1st King's Dragoon Guards Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) 3rd Carabiniers
                             
 
 
 
4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards
 
               
 
Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons) Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) 3rd The King's Own Hussars
 
                                               
 
 
4th Queen's Own Hussars 7th Queen's Own Hussars 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
 
 
 
 
9th Queen's Royal Lancers 10th Royal Hussars 11th Hussars
 
 
 
 
12th Royal Lancers 13th/18th Royal Hussars 14th/20th King's Hussars
 
                   
     
 
15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers 17th/21st Lancers
           
     
                                                                 
 
Queen's Own Hussars Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Royal Hussars
                                         
                   
                       

[edit] Former Yeomanry regiments

Many of these belts are still worn by sub-units.

 
Ayrshire Yeomanry Bedfordshire Yeomanry Berkshire and Westminster Dragoons
 
 
 
 
Berkshire Yeomanry Cheshire Yeomanry City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
 
 
 
 
3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Derbyshire Yeomanry Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
East Riding Yeomanry Essex Yeomanry(1) Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
 
                               
 
 
Flintshire and Denbighshire Yeomanry Glamorgan Yeomanry Hampshire Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Hertfordshire Yeomanry Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry(2) Inns of Court Regiment
 
                     
 
 
Inns of Court and City Yeomanry(3) Kent Yeomanry Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry†(4)
     
 
                                             
 
Lanarkshire Yeomanry Lancashire Hussars Leicestershire Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry† Lothians and Border Horse Lovat Scouts
                                                                                 
 
 
 
Middlesex Yeomanry Norfolk Yeomanry North Irish Horse
     
 
 
 
North Somerset Yeomanry North Somerset and Bristol Yeomanry Northamptonshire Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Northumberland Hussars Pembroke Yeomanry(5) Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry
 
                       
 
 
Queen's Own Dorset and West Somerset Yeomanry Queen's Own Lowland Yeomanry Queen's Own Mercian Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry Queen's Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry(6)
 
 
     
 
Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry Royal Devon Yeomanry‡ Royal Gloucestershire Hussars‡
 
 
                                                 
 
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry†‡ Scottish Horse Scottish Yeomanry
           
 
 
 
Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry† Shropshire Yeomanry South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry
 
 
     
 
Staffordshire Yeomanry Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry Suffolk Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry Surrey Yeomanry Sussex Yeomanry
 
 
 
 
Warwickshire Yeomanry West Somerset Yeomanry Westminster Dragoons†
 
 
                         
 
Yorkshire Hussars Yorkshire Yeomanry
 
 
 
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
 
  • †These belts are now worn by squadrons of The Royal Yeomanry
  • ‡These belts are now worn by squadrons of The Wessex Yeomanry
  • (1) Worn by 70th (Essex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals
  • (2) Worn by 201 (The Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Battery, Royal Artillery
  • (3) Worn by 68th (Inns of Court and City Yeomanry) Signal Squadron and the band of the Royal Yeomanry
  • (4) Also worn by HQ (Kent and County of London Yeomanry) SDquadron, 71st Signal Regiment
  • (5) Worn by 224 (Pembrokeshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Royal Logistic Corps
  • (6) Worn by 67 (Queens Own Warwickshire & Worcestershire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron

[edit] Infantry regiments (old system)/Former infantry regiments

 
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Black Watch
                                   
     
 
Border Regiment The Buffs The Cameronians
                     
   
Douglas Tartan
 
Cheshire Regiment
(in existence until August 2007)		 Devonshire and Dorset Regiment Devonshire Regiment
     
                             
               
 
Dorset Regiment Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
                                       
                                   
 
Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment Duke of Wellington's Regiment Durham Light Infantry
                 
         
                                       
 
1st East Anglian Regiment 2nd East Anglian Regiment 3rd East Anglian Regiment
                 
                                                         
                                     
 
East Lancashire Regiment East Surrey Regiment East Yorkshire Regiment
     
         
 
 
Essex Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment Gordon Highlanders
 
                                       
Gordon Tartan
 
Green Howards The Highlanders Highland Light Infantry
                         
Gordon Tartan
 
 
2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles King's Own Royal Border Regiment King's Own Royal Regiment
                       
         
   
 
King's Own Scottish Borderers King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry King's Regiment
Leslie Tartan
 
               
 
King's Regiment (Liverpool) King's Royal Rifle Corps King's Shropshire Light Infantry
 
                           
                                 
 
Lancashire Fusiliers Lancashire Regiment The Light Infantry
 
 
 
 
Loyal Regiment Manchester Regiment Middlesex Regiment
 
         
     
 
Northamptonshire Regiment North Staffordshire Regiment Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
     
 
 
 
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
                         
     
             
 
Queen's Lancashire Regiment Queen's Own Buffs Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
 
 
 
 
Queen's Own Highlanders Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Queen's Regiment
MacKenzie Tartan
 
 
 
Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment The Rifle Brigade
                   
                     
     
 
Royal Berkshire Regiment Royal Fusiliers Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
                               
   
                                                       
 
Royal Green Jackets Royal Hampshire Regiment Royal Highland Fusiliers
 
                                                     
MacKenzie Tartan
 
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Royal Irish Fusiliers Royal Irish Rangers
 
                           
 
 
Royal Leicestershire Regiment Royal Lincolnshire Regiment Royal Norfolk Regiment
     
 
           
 
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Royal Regiment of Wales Royal Scots
     
                                               
Hunting Stewart Tartan
 
Royal Scots Fusiliers Royal Sussex Regiment Royal Ulster Rifles
 
     
 
 
Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers Royal Welch Fusiliers Seaforth Highlanders
     
   
 
 
Sherwood Foresters Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry Somerset Light Infantry
     
 
 
 
South Lancashire Regiment South Staffordshire Regiment South Wales Borderers
 
 
 
 
Staffordshire Regiment
(in existence until August 2007)		 Suffolk Regiment Ulster Defence Regiment
 
                                                     
 
 
Welch Regiment West Yorkshire Regiment Wiltshire Regiment
     
 
                 
 
Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
(in existence until August 2007)		 Worcestershire Regiment York and Lancaster Regiment
     
 
                       

[edit] Former volunteer infantry regiments

These stable belts may still be worn by sub-units.

 
Cambridgeshire Regiment Glasgow Highlanders Herefordshire Light Infantry
     
 
 
 
1st Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers 2nd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers 3rd Battalion, 51st Highland Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Lancastrian Volunteers Leeds Rifles Light Infantry and Mercian Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Liverpool Scottish London Irish Rifles London Regiment
 
 
 
 
London Rifle Brigade London Scottish(1) 1st Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers
 
 
 
 
2nd Battalion, 52nd Lowland Volunteers 1st Battalion, Mercian Volunteers 2nd Battalion, Mercian Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Monmouthshire Regiment North Irish Militia Northumbrian Volunteers
 
 
 
 
Queen Victoria's Rifles Queen's Westminsters The Rangers
 
 
 
 
Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Regiment Tower Hamlets Rifles Tyneside Scottish
 
 
 
 
Welsh Volunteers 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment 2nd Battalion, Wessex Regiment
 
 
                           
 
1st Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers 3rd Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers
                     
                                           
                                           
 
Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment(1)
   

(1) Worn by A (London Scottish) Company, The London Regiment (2) Worn by 41st (Princess Louise's Kensington) Signal Squadron (Volunteers)

[edit] Former corps

 
Adjutant General's Corps (1st Pattern) Army Catering Corps Army Fire Service
                 
                                         
                       
 
Army Legal Corps Military Provost Staff Corps Royal Army Educational Corps
 
                               
                                                 
 
Royal Army Ordnance Corps (1st Pattern) Royal Army Ordnance Corps (2nd Pattern) Royal Army Pay Corps
                     
                                             
                                                     
 
Royal Army Service Corps Royal Corps of Transport Royal Military Police
                                                                     
                                             
 
 
Royal Pioneer Corps Women's Royal Army Corps
                           
     
 
Gurkha Military Police Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment
 
 

[edit] Former training units

 
Mons Officer Cadet School
 
 
Army Apprentices College, Arborfield Army Apprentices College, Chepstow Army Apprentices College, Harrogate
               
 
 
 
Junior Leaders Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
     

[edit] Sources

  • Materiel Regulations for The Army, Volume 3, Pamphlet No.16, Optional items of dress, Ministry of Defence, London, 1995

[edit] External links

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