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21-11-09, 04:17 AM
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CAC OSD
Seeing an ebay listing tonight for a pair of CAC collars "brown", brings up a question. Anyone have any idea why there are a few different patterns of collars in OSD bronze/brown copper but no matching cap badges?
Is the CAC the only Corps that doesn't have a bronze variety of cap badge?
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21-11-09, 02:32 PM
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I am guessing this is because the corps was raised during wartime and the badge was changed to the gauntlet (RCAC) at the end of the war. I realize that some units wore the CAC badge overseas, but I think the CAC cap badge was mainly a worn by troops while they were in training before being posted to a regiment.
Is there any chance that SD cap badges were not worn because the beret was the main headdress rather than SD cap? I do have a nice silver CAC cap badge with three lugs, but I do not recall seeing any others in my travels. I do have an interesting story. I used to work for a former officer who had been posted to the Armoured School in Borden during the war. He told me that some officers would bring their cap badges to him to dip in an acid bath and then hold in the flame of a bunsen burner. This gave the badges a subdued finish. Phil Last edited by Phillip Herring; 21-11-09 at 08:46 PM.
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21-11-09, 07:47 PM
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I've often wondered too why the collars exist without the cap badge. The CAC 'bling badges' which do turn up are relatively scarce, & mostly English made. Could this be because the corps had a smallish permanent staff, while most officers were short-timers eventually attached to the fighting regiments?
On part two of your quiz, the only other Corps that comes to mind who had no OSD pattern is the Intelligence Corps.
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#4
21-11-09, 09:03 PM
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According to Mazeas, The Canadian Intelligence Corps cap badge was authorized under GO 87 of 1944. I will try to find a copy and post it.
I suspect that following other wartime units (8th Recce, Canadian Parachute Corps, Canadian Forestry Corps, Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment), there may not be a full complement of cap and collar badges for ORs, Officers service dress and officers full dress. Phil
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22-11-09, 06:48 AM
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Hi, after the 1923-4 badge fest the british RTC/ RTR wore bronze collars OSD with silver cap badges. Maybe they followed the british fashion. Mike
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