TFH armlet id?

[Bill A]

This armlet is Canadian made, dated 1993. Does anyone know the provenance of the design? Who, what, when? The triangle and TFH appear to have been sprayed on.

[54Bty]

The only thing that comes to mind is "Task Force Harvest", the name given to those taking part in the NATO mission Operation Essential Harvest in Macedonia. UK Troops wore a white on green square version of the badge.

[badjez]

TASK FORCE HARVEST.
This was the name of the operation whereby British and other nationalities deployed ground troosp into Kosova for the first time to empound weapons.
There is a British green/white TRF of similar design worn about September 2001.

Regards, Stephen.

[Bill A]

Gentlemen, Awsome. Your information led me to this background information regarding the Canadian forces:
Task Force Harvest was a 4,400-strong multinational force comprising personnel from 14 nations, including Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The Canadian contingent consisted of about 200 Canadian Forces members, as follows:

Three staff officers working at Task Force Harvest Headquarters in Skopje;
A Squadron, The Royal Canadian Dragoons, a 145-strong armoured reconnaissance squadron based at Petawawa, Ontario and re-assigned from Operation Palladium in Bosnia-Herzegovina;
A National Command Element of about 45 personnel from the Canadian Forces Joint Operations Group in Kingston, Ontario; and
A National Support Element of about 10 personnel from units in Canada and Bosnia.
From their camp west of Skopje, the Dragoons, with their Coyote reconnaissance vehicles, carried out observation, scouted routes and escorted convoys. They set up camp on August 31, and were ready to carry out their first mission, a convoy escort, on September 2. On October 1, 2001, when the NATO monitoring operation began, the Dragoons returned to Bosnia and their duties as part of Operation Palladium.

The Canadian contribution to the mission finally closed with the return of the last staff officer from Skopje at the end of September, 2002.

It appears that the armlet was from the Canadian contingent in Task Force Harvest. Previously undocumented "tasking patch".

[David Tremain]

There is a picture of a British Task Force Harvest badge in Robin Hodges' book 'British Army Badges'.

[Bill A]

Clarification David, a pic of a tasking patch?
I don't believe the Canadian contingent had a specific tasking patch for this deployment, only the armlet. However, I have been wrong about other patching.

[Alan O]

Originally Posted by 54Bty

The only thing that comes to mind is "Task Force Harvest" a NATO operation in Bosnia. UK Troops worn a white on green square version of the badge.

It was actually Former Republic of Yugoslavia of Macedonia where the weapon collections were organised rather than Bosnia or Kosovo.

Alan

[BWEF]

Maj. Gen. Gunnar Lange, Danish Army, Task Force Harvest Commander.

Also, here is something about TFH:

http://www.psywarrior.com/PostYugoMacedonia.html

[David Tremain]

Bill, I'll have to check tonight when I have access to Hodges. I'm at work now slaving away so don't have it handy and don't have email at home. I'll try to post tomorrow. David

[Voltigeur]

Another pic of a TFH patch being worn.
Jo
http://www.eliteukforces.info/images...s/para-tfh.jpg

[Bill A]

Thanks for all the information. I now need to get images of the armlet in Canadian use. I don't believe that the British patches were worn by other national elements.
I did a search on the DND web site, and had about 30 hits for images, but there was no image that showed an armlet in use. The angles were such that the images hid the use of an armlet, or the soldiers were not wearing their outer garments.

[Voltigeur]

I tried to find a canadian pic Bill but, I only came up with the brit one and the one with the danish general.Good hunting.
Jo

[David Tremain]

Bill, I was mistaken; it's not in Hodges. I had downloaded a picture of it from eBay a couple of years ago and put it into an album. The trouble is I don't have an electronic version anymore to post. However, it looks like the one that someone else posted earlier - green square, merrowed edges, white equilateral triangle with TFH in the centre, also in white. The note I have says it was worn in Macedonia.

[54Bty]

Originally Posted by Bill A

Thanks for all the information. I now need to get images of the armlet in Canadian use. I don't believe that the British patches were worn by other national elements.
I did a search on the DND web site, and had about 30 hits for images, but there was no image that showed an armlet in use. The angles were such that the images hid the use of an armlet, or the soldiers were not wearing their outer garments.

Do not know if this will be of any help.

http://www.nato.int/SFOR/indexinf/121/p14a/t0114a.htm