Canadian Made Pegasus Patch

[tcrown]

I have an embroidered Pegasus patch that I have always considered suspiciously.
Canadian Front.jpg Canadian Rear.jpg
However, it looks relatively close to two examples presented in Ken Joyce's book. They are described as Canadian-manufactured patches with the embroidery sewn through a black cotton backing material. Ken indicates that these badges could have been made around the summer of 1945 by companies like Stanley A. Grant or H.P. Ritchie Co. based in Toronto.

A similar patch can be found on this excellent website https://1stcanparamuseum.com/media-g.../badge-archive

I'd value any opinion on this badge not being too familiar with Canadian badges (my main focus is on British Airborne).

[RoyA]

A good example of the Canadian variant and very hard to find.
Here is another to compare.

[tcrown]

Thanks Roy. Much appreciated.
Do you confirm these Pegasus were issued in the summer of 1945 for a short period of time before the Battalion was disbanded? I'm not sure if Pegasus patches continued to be worn after in the Canadian Army.

[RoyA]

That is correct.

[JerryBB]

great to see these Canadian paggies, only recently discovered they existed

[54Bty]

To me it looks to be the same as one that was declared a fake in a previous thread, which I can no longer find.

Marc