BRITISH WWII SCOTS GUARDS OFFICERS VISOR CAP, IDENTIFIED TO A PUBLIC FIGURE.

A fabulous condition late WWII very small size guards pattern officers visor cap. The British Army regiments had different patterns of caps, the guards pattern cap is very distinctive having the short peak at more of a vertical than standard regimental patterns. This example is in excellent condition, no moth damage, both sides of the cap with the regimental pattern tartan. Very dark brown bordering on black cap strap. Royal Scots Kings Crown buttons with the very small size Royal Scots officers cap badge, which is worn from cleaning. The leather sweatband is complete in Morocco brown leather, sweat staining to the forehead area. The faint remains of a Herbert Johnson, New Bond Street retailers underneath the protective oilskin inner crown lining. The cap was the property of Peter Rees, who served in Margaret Thatcher’s government as a Trade & Industry Minister and reached the cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Peter Rees died in 1991 after taking the title Baron Rees of Goytre in 1987. Rees came from the land owning gentry, his father, Major General T.W.Rees a professional soldier reputed to have been one of the personalities of the British Army. Peter Rees served in the Scots Guards at the closing stages of WWII and on demobilisation in 1948 went onto Christchurch College Oxford. Accompanying the cap is a fine large size framed photograph of Rees wearing this same cap in his Scots Guards uniform, upper bust and a very nice family photograph album with many large format well exposed images, all appear to have been taken in Europe, which appear to have been in northern Italy and Austria, whether these pictures were taken before the war or after is unknown as there are no annotations to the images. At the very end of the album a very large press photograph of a British Army General seated at his desk, unidentified and then further images of Rees with a Commanding General accompanying him at an unidentified port city in Europe, we believe that he had history of dealing with Yugoslav partisans in the problems with the ownership of Trieste at the end of WWII. In one of the images Rees is pictured wearing this same cap.

Code: 93092