Bought this thing at a flea market today. I know its a shoulder or uniform padding, but for what rank or type of service i don’t know. If anyone has the answer to this, please let me know!

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1. Looks like the patch for a Major but I don’t recall seeing one like this in the Belgian army

2. The red lines make me think that these are firefighter epaulettes/passanten. But normally those have a helmet depicted too.

3. Facteur of honor

4. Rijkswacht/Gendarmerie?

5. this is a patch of the old army dress uniforms (called service dress) in the belgian army .. the rank is major.

6. I think this was from the artillerie

7. Het is de rang Attaché van de douane
   https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douaneambtenaar

8. Rijkswacht/Gendarmerie major patch revers

   [Vroegere Politie en Rijkswacht: Majoor (collectierijkswachtpolitie.blogspot.com)](https://collectierijkswachtpolitie.blogspot.com/2009/05/majoor.html)

9. Major from te Rijkswacht/ gendarmerie.

10. onder luitenant (brandweer)

11. This is the symbol for a major, the star and underlining stripe is to this day still the symbol for a major in the land component of the Belgian army. The patch itself however is different nowadays, it’s like a brownish rectangular velcro patch for the normal uniforms

12. Majoor Brandweer vermoed ik.

    https://preview.redd.it/nas2btanndcd1.png?width=818&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0fbd8350d9d9d179f03ef45a450d816dc4a286ab

13. Old service dress rank of an artillery major from the Belgian Army. I understand why people guess it’s from fire department because of the color scheme but their ranks always contained the helmet and axes logo.

14. Majoor

15. Bij de rijkswacht