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Conger Reynolds newspaper clippings, 1916-1919

Clipping: ""Insignia of Rank On Overseas Cap"" Page 1

INSIGNIA OF RANK ON OVERSEAS CAP

Enlisted Men Will Wear Button Showing Branch of Service

Off-agin, on-agin, gone-agin, Finnegin! You've got to wear your insignia up on the top of your monk - beg pardon, half-seas-over cap, after all.
That's the dope. There's a part of a new general order entirely devoted to it. Too much confusion has resulted; hence the change.
The new regulations provide that officers shall wear the insignia of their rank on the cap placed five-eighths of an inch to the left of the center fold and five-eighths of an inch from the bottom edge.
For the various grades the instructions are: The bars which form the insignia of lieutenants and captains shall be worn perpendicular to the bottom edge of the cap. The majors' and lieutenant-colonels' leaves shall be worn stem down. Colonels must wear the old eagle facing forward - as is quite appropriate.
Brigadier-generals must wear their stars point upward, just as Mars appears in the heavens. Additional stars, marking the rank of general officers above the grade of brigadier general, are to extend to the left and to be placed five-eighths of an inch apart and five-eighths of an inch, also, from the bottom edge of the interesting piece of headgear.
Enlisted men are to wear on the cap the button prescribed to be warn on the left hand side of the collar of the service coat. Again, the five-eighths of an inch rule comes into play - the button must be that much to the left of the center fold of the cap, and the same distance from the bottom edge.

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INSIGNIA OF RANK ON OVERSEAS CAP Enlisted Men Will Wear Button Showing Branch of Service Off-agin, on-agin, gone-agin, Finnegin! You've got to wear your insignia up on the top of your monk - beg pardon, half-seas-over cap, after all. That's the dope. There's a part of a new general order entirely devoted to it. Too much confusion has resulted; hence the change. The new regulations provide that officers shall wear the insignia of their rank on the cap placed five-eighths of an inch to the left of the center fold and five-eighths of an inch from the bottom edge. For the various grades the instructions are: The bars which form the insignia of lieutenants and captains shall be worn perpendicular to the bottom edge of the cap. The majors' and lieutenant-colonels' leaves shall be worn stem down. Colonels must wear the old eagle facing forward - as is quite appropriate. Brigadier-generals must wear their stars point upward, just as Mars appears in the heavens. Additional stars, marking the rank of general officers above the grade of brigadier general, are to extend to the left and to be placed five-eighths of an inch apart and five-eighths of an inch, also, from the bottom edge of the interesting piece of headgear. Enlisted men are to wear on the cap the button prescribed to be warn on the left hand side of the collar of the service coat. Again, the five-eighths of an inch rule comes into play - the button must be that much to the left of the center fold of the cap, and the same distance from the bottom edge.