The Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers were not formed until May 1944. As NorthStafford inidicates, RCEME was created from the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, elements of the Royal Canadian Engineers, and elements of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. Two issues affected the badging. First, the allegiance of the soldier often remained with his "old" regiment. This was especially true of those who were transferred against their preference. They continued to wear their previous cap badge. The second question was the availability of the cap badge. This is not documented that I have found to date, but the RCEME hat badge was not immediately available. Once the RCEME badge was available, the use of other corps badges was discontinued.
The formation patch in the image is the 1st Cdn Army patch.
Last edited by Bill A; 04-09-09 at 12:15 PM.
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