"What does this soldier do?" Topic

A friend of a friend sent a picture of himself at work. On his desk was this.
picture

Can anyone tell me what these symbols mean? Units served in, honours, merits?

Can you tell us what nation's armed forces he's in? Which branch of the service? Roughly what year the pic was taken? Some clues might help.

Looks like UK unit badges. Can't really see them clearly enough to tell.

They look like cap badges from a Commonwealth army. The third one, however, doesn't look like anything! I'm not sure what it is.

I think we need a larger picture, my eyesight isn't getting any better…

I'm 20 years out of date but I have seen similar boards on desks. They typically displayed the badges from a uniform that gave information about who you were talking to (cap badge, rank insignia, speciality etc) that may not be being displayed as prominently in an office situation as they would be away from the desk. They were normally the same badges as were on the uniform.

I don't believe there was any standard way of laying them out or what they should contain.

x42

The man is currently serving in the British Army, the pic is supposed to be recent and the third one was blocked out in the pic we got for some reason. I'll see about a larger picture.

I think the first badge is the standard 'British Army' motif with scroll work : picture

And the 2nd one looks like the 'Coldstream Guards" badge : picture

Astronomican is correct, they are all UK Army regimental badges apart from the 1st which is the Army standard. These boards are seen all over the place, they can be like x42 brown says and be of the office owners branch, regiment etc. but can also be used to display 'souveners (spelling!) of Regiments the guy has been attached to at various points in his Army career. SNCO`s with their own desks do this in the RAF as well

Could #2 also be the Royal Logistics Corps? That could explain the postings to multiple units.

army.mod.uk/rlc/index.htm

SMc.