Here is a picture from Library and Archives Canada showing the Canadian FSSF members wearing Canadian uniforms with maroon berets. Some of them have the crossed-arrows cap badge, some have no badge.
My research indicates that the First Special Service Force was disbanded in Villeneuve-Loubet on Dec. 5th, 1944. This picture suggests the 1st Canadian Special Service Battalion was disbanded on January 9th, 1945. Perhaps this is the uniform worn by the 1st Canadian Special Service Battalion for the short time after the FSSF was disbanded in Dec. 1944 until the 1st Canadian Special Service Battalion was itself disbanded in early 1945.
Did the 1st Canadian Special Service Battalion in fact still exist on its own for a very short period after the FSSF was disbanded?
Title: Major-General E.G. Weeks, Major-General in charge of Administration, talking with personnel of No.1 Canadian Special Service Battalion, which is being disbanded, Aldershot, England, 9 January 1945.
Location: Aldershot, England
Date: January 9, 1945
Photographer: Richer, Lieut. Charles H.
Mikan Number: 3587655
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