I can't claim any credit, I just read the British army website, copied the appropriate paragraphs and put them together, no skills, just plagiarism. As for cap badges, crests and badges are very important to the British army, loyalty and team spirit is very much encouraged. Different battalions etc have proud (and not so proud) histories stretching back hundreds of years. Here is a link which you might find interesting, http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6804/badges.html it is a gallery of cap badges with regiment histories. This website is not official but much of the information seems fairly accurate.