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Originally Posted by Bill A
The GL maple leaf was actually worn into the 1950's. When the newly formed 4 Canadian Guards were deployed to Korea in 1953-54, they had not yet had their cap badges authorized and wore the plated GL badges. Other courses or units also wore the GL badges until the new Cdn army general list badge was approved.
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Bill, this somewhat confuses me. By the SWW there were two types of General List badges; the umpteen number of Maple Leaf designs and the Coat of Arms type. What dictated the wearing of what type/design of General List badge?
Photos I have of the 'Coat of Arms' type of GL in wear (SWW), are only of officers. But I have such a small sampling of photos to gauge from and they are all overseas/late war, I don't want to generalize. I thought that the Coat of Arms type GL superseded the Maple Leaf variants, but this is apparently not correct?
Bill.