Unusual RCA badge

[Blackadder1916]

Originally Posted by Phillip Herring

818. INSTRUCTORS-IN-GUNNERY AND ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS-IN-GUNNERY
1. Instructors-in-Gunnery, when on instructional duty at schools of Artillery or on Artillery ranges in an Instructor-in-Gunnery capacity, will wear the former army khaki forage cap with a red band when wearing operational and garrison dress.
2. Assistant Instructors-in-Gunnery will, when similarly employed, wear a CF Navy OR’s peaked cap with a white cover and red band.
3. The above applies to either gender. This headdress is not worn with No 1, No 2 or No 3 orders of dress. It will not be worn when safety dictates the use of helmets and during Combined Arms training.


Figure 20 shows the caps for Assistant Instructors in Gunnery and Instructors in Gunnery.

http://www.artillery.net/beta/wp-con...s-Vol-I-sm.pdf

Phil

Apparently there has been an amendment to the above quoted item in RCA Standing Orders. While previously (as highlighted), use of already whited-topped CF Navy caps was mandated (probably an economy measure), the same item in SOs now reads

http://canadianartillery.ca/orders-a...s-for-the-rca/ (go to volume 1)

818. INSTRUCTORS-IN-GUNNERY AND ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS-IN-GUNNERY
1. Instructors-in-Gunnery, when on instructional duty at schools of Artillery or on Artillery ranges in an Instructor-in-Gunnery capacity, will wear the former army khaki forage cap with a red band when wearing CADPAT clothing in field and garrison environments.
2. Assistant Instructors-in-Gunnery will, when similarly employed, wear the former Peaked CF Service Dress cap with a white cover and red band when wearing CADPAT clothing in field and garrison environments.
3. The above applies to either gender. This headdress is not worn with No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 orders of dress. It will not be worn when safety dictates the use of helmets.

While the appearance would have been similar, I wondered if the change had anything to do with the use of a red band on a Navy cap being the service dress identifier of a Military Policeman.

[Bill A]

I think this goes back to pre-unification. Technically, the artillery red used on the cap bands (pre-unification) was called scarlet, while the provost colour is described as red, a brighter red than the RCA. Side by side they are not difficult to distinguish, but without a reference it can be difficult.