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Old 19-05-14, 01:58 AM
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Does anyone know what year each of these badges was issued?
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I will try to help with these.....the cap badge with (M.G.) was probably the first pattern,starting in 1936 by the amalgamation of the Cumberland Highlanders, The Colchester and Hants Rifles, and 'C' Company, 6th Machine-Gun Battalion.
Then,I suppose there was a change in the title when the Bn. lost their MG status (HIGH'RS) and finally I presume the last pattern was adopted during the war when the Bn.was regular infantry.....

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I will try to help with these.....the cap badge with (M.G.) was probably the first pattern,starting in 1936 by the amalgamation of the Cumberland Highlanders, The Colchester and Hants Rifles, and 'C' Company, 6th Machine-Gun Battalion.
Then,I suppose there was a change in the title when the Bn. lost their MG status (HIGH'RS) and finally I presume the last pattern was adopted during the war when the Bn.was regular infantry.....

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Do you have any references for your information?

According to Mazeas' Insignes Canadiens 1920-1950 Canadian Badges Revised edition, page 98.

M.135 NNS HIGH'RS (MG) Auth by General Order 173/1939.
M.136 NNS HIGHLANDERS Given as 1941, but no GO noted.

I can find no reference for the N.N.S. HIGH'RS badge for the ORs. Given its scarcity, I assume it was an error.

For more information on the Nova Scotia Highlanders and its antecedents, including The North Nova Scotia Highlanders:

http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-...r2/nsh-eng.asp


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Phil:

Re this being an error, there are officer badges which read NNS HIGH'RS, so I'm thinking those would not have been made up if in fact this abbreviation was not approved somewhere along the line. Maybe the abbreviation was not an error so much as unappreciated by the powers that be?
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