Editing Cap badge (section)

=====Wearing conventions=====
The cap badge is positioned differently depending on the form of headdress:

*Home Service Helmet or Wolseley Helmet: above the centre between the wearer's eyebrows.
*[[Combination cap|Service dress cap]]: above the centre point between the wearer's eyebrows
*[[Beret]]: above the left eye<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Rifles_Dress_Guidance__2013_Srl_10.pdf#search=beret |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 June 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206210653/http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Rifles_Dress_Guidance__2013_Srl_10.pdf |archive-date=6 February 2015}}</ref>
* Side cap: Between the left eye and the left ear
* Scottish [[tam o'shanter (hat)|tam o'shanter]]: Between the left eye and the left ear
* Scottish [[glengarry]]: Between the left eye and the left ear
* Feather bonnet: Slightly off the left ear towards the left eye
* Fusilier cap or [[Busby (military headdress)|Busby]]: Slightly off the left ear towards the left eye
* Jungle hat (as worn by the [[Brigade of Gurkhas]] in Number 2 dress): Centre front or between left eye and left ear.

Soldiers of the [[Gloucestershire Regiment]] and subsequently the [[Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment]] wore a cap badge on both the front and the rear of their headdress, a tradition maintained by soldiers in [[The Rifles]] when in service dress. The back badge is unique in the British Army and was awarded to the 28th Regiment of Foot for their actions at the [[Battle of Alexandria (1801)|Battle of Alexandria]] in 1801.

Additional items that reflect a regiment's historical accomplishments, such as backing cloth and [[hackle]]s, may be worn behind the cap badge. In Scottish regiments, for instance, it is a tradition for soldiers to wear their cap badges on a small square piece of their regimental [[tartan]]s. [[Officer cadet]]s may wear a small white backing behind their badges. Members of arms such as the [[Adjutant General's Corps]] and [[Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]] serving on attachment to other units often wear that regiment's beret or headdress but with their own Corps cap badge.

For a period leading up to [[Remembrance Day]] artificial [[Remembrance poppy#United Kingdom|poppies]] are worn by many people in the United Kingdom and [[Canada]] to commemorate those killed in war. On [[forage cap]]s the paper petals are fitted under the left hand chin strap button.