https://www.forces.net/services/army/army-lifts-100-year-ban-serving-soldiers-having-beards-royal-appointment
The New Rules. - Only a full-set beard will be allowed. - Length must be between Grade 1 (2.5mm) and Grade 8 (25.5mm) - Must be trimmed off at the cheekbones and neck. - No patchy or uneven growth. - No exaggerated colours. The RAF allowed its personnel to grow beards for the first time in 2019 (Picture: MOD) An Army spokesperson said the

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/british-army-beards/
Under the new grooming standards policy, British soldiers can grow beards up to 25.55 mm long, or roughly 1 inch. Only full beards are allowed - no patchy or uneven growth. Exaggerated colors

https://www.ft.com/content/d718f2f2-9fc3-11e3-b6c7-00144feab7de
In the most significant indication so far of a "fifth column" of Hitler sympathisers in Britain, an MI5 mole known by his code name "Jack King" posed as a Gestapo agent to penetrate groups

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1191/0968344505wh322oa
Abstract. Fear of the 'Fifth Column' was one of the most important aspects of the defeat suffered by the British army in France and Belgium during May and June 1940, but it has so far been largely overlooked in most accounts of the campaign.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68691987
Speaking after the policy change, he said: "With Army recruitment being a big priority and a recent YouGov [poll] finding most men (54%) now say they currently have a beard or moustache, I asked

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/its-the-bearded-army-british-soldiers-will-finally-be-able-to-grow-a-full-beard-after-king-charles-gives-military-chiefs-permission-to-end-the-100-year-ban/ar-BB1kIKT2
British Army soldiers and officers will finally be allowed to grow a full beard after King Charles gave his approval, allowing military chiefs to end the more than 100-year ban.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/29/british-army-ends-century-old-ban-to-allow-troops-to-grow-beards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Column_(intelligence_operation)
Fifth Column was the name MI5, the British Security Service, gave to a World War II operation run from 1942 until at least 1947. It was initially intended to identify people who would be willing to assist Germany in the event of an invasion of the United Kingdom, but as it developed, it also acted to divert its targets away from harmful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Army_(United_Kingdom)
The Fifth Army was created on 30 October 1916, by renaming the Reserve Army (General Hubert Gough). It participated in the Battle of the Ancre, which became the final British effort in the Battle of the Somme.. In 1917,the Fifth Army was involved in the Battle of Arras and then the Third Battle of Ypres.The following year, the Fifth Army took over a stretch of front-line previously occupied by

https://www.britannica.com/topic/fifth-column
fifth column, clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity by any means at their disposal. The term is conventionally credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his "fifth

https://academic.oup.com/book/27701/chapter/197851013
On May 20 at about 11 a.m. Charles Maxwell-Knight, Inspectors Keeble and Pearson, and Franklin C. Gowen, Second Secretary at the US Embassy, raided the flat of Tyler G. Kent, a code and cipher clerk in the US Embassy. 1 Captain Guy Liddell had rung Herschel V. Johnson, the Counsellor, at 12.30 p.m. on 18 May, and Maxwell-Knight explained the background at 3 p.m. that day. 2 At the Foreign

https://www.lonesentry.com/articles/intelligence-report/fifth-column.html
2. TACTICS USED. Intelligence Bulletin No. 1 carried a list of Fifth Columnist practices in behalf of the Japanese. The list below consists of additional Fifth Columnist tactics in behalf of all Axis powers. The agents engaged in--. a. Direct Aid to Enemy Operations. (1) Lied to the British about the proper trails to follow in the Malayan jungles;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Infantry_Division_(United_Kingdom)
The 5th Infantry Division was a regular army infantry division of the British Army.It was established by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington for service in the Peninsular War, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, and was active for most of the period since, including the First World War and the Second World War and was disbanded soon after.The division was reformed in 1995 as an

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/27/nazi-sympathisers-britain_n_4867341.html
FORT BELVOIR, VA - FEBRUARY 7:'The Flag Bearer Hitler in Armor' is a 1934 oil painting on plywood by Hubert Lanzinger being housed at the Army Art Collection US Army Center of Military History

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1191/0968344505wh322oa
Abstract. Fear of the 'Fifth Column' was one of the most important aspects of the defeat suffered by the British army in France and Belgium during May and June 1940, but it has so far been largely overlooked in most accounts of the campaign. There was widespread paranoia throughout the British Expeditionary Force that its efforts were being

https://www.forces.net/news/meet-pioneer-sergeant-one-few-army-ranks-allowed-beard-parade
The Pioneer Sergeant is one of the few positions within the British Army allowed to have a beard when on parade. Pioneer Sergeants have existed since the 1700s. The tradition began when every British infantry company had one 'pioneer' who would march in front of the regiment. He would wear a 'stout' apron, which protected his uniform whilst he

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240728396_The_'Fifth_Column'_and_the_British_Experience_of_Retreat_1940
Abstract. Fear of the 'Fifth Column' was one of the most important aspects of the defeat suffered by the British army in France and Belgium during May and June 1940, but it has so far been

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)
The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was an armed citizen militia supporting the British Army during the Second World War.Operational from 1940 to 1944, the Home Guard had 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, such as those who were too young or too old to join the regular armed services (regular military service was restricted to those

https://wordhistories.net/2017/04/10/fifth-column/
The term fifth column, which translates Spanish quinta columna, denotes the enemy's supporters in one's own country, or a body of one's supporters in an attacked or occupied foreign country, hence, more generally, any group of hostile or subversive infiltrators, any enemy in one's midst—synonym: the enemy within.. The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) was the conflict between Nationalist

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1940/jun/12/the-fifth-column-position-of-the-bbc
THE FIFTH COLUMN: POSITION OF THE B.B.C. (Hansard, 12 June 1940) HL Deb 12 June 1940 vol 116 cc530-70 530. § 4.17 p.m. § THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DOMINION AFFAIRS (VISCOUNT CALDECOTE) My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing on the Paper in my name. 531.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_(East_Anglian)_Infantry_Division
The 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army.The division was raised in 1908 following the creation of the Territorial Force (TF) as the East Anglian Division.During the First World War the division fought at Gallipoli and in the Middle East.The division was disbanded after the war but reformed in the Territorial Army in 1920.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/british-army-the-use-of-beards.126245/
Pioneer/Farrier Sergeants in many/most regiments have a beard by tradition. Not sure what the origin is, but I think it was a Sudan-war era (British Army seems to have become beard-less in the 1870s) thing to do with battlefield identification - these guys were the ones carrying the axe with which to despatch injured horses and to cut off their right fore hoof (which was numbered) for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column
A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine. ... A British journalist who took part in Mola's press conference on 28 October 1936, ... the term "fifth columnists" is used repeatedly to