Post War Cap Badge...Kings Crown??

[1CanPara]

We were reserves, but i was offered work every day including advanced party to bases or just anything....i just love wearing the combats. I was begging all the time to go to Para school witch was being offered, but i don't know anyone that got it. I did four jumps with retired paras, but not an official military jump.
Mike

[bobguitar]

Gentlemen;
This might hopefully clear up the origin of the GGHG KC cap badge that 1canpara was asking about.
My late father was an employee of Balfour/Balfirm in Sherbrooke, Que in the 1980's. That company made many different badges for the Canadian Forces.
I remember that around 1984 he gave me a bag containing several of the exact same GGHG, KC chromed badges. The rest of the bag contained a variety of then current, QC badges. He told me that they were shop samples.
Hope this helps a bit.
Bob

[1CanPara]

Bob, Thanks for the information!

[Ronald LeBlanc]

Originally Posted by 1CanPara

I was issued this cap badge back in 1979 (Governor General's Horse Guards)
I always found strange it had a Kings Crown, lugs and is stay-bright ??

There was an apparent quality control problem with QC badges GGHG; the
crowns easily broke off because of the slider fasteners affixed on the back
of the crowns; the KC patterns continued to be issued until the problem
solved.

[Seathanaich]

I have one of these badges, essentially given to me; and desipte its obvious problems, have kept it . . . just in case. It's amazing to learn that I can now put it in my 1967+ collection! Thank you 1CanPara/Mike, if you are still on these boards.

[54Bty]

Originally Posted by Tanker Mike

Any ex military vets out there see whats wrong with this picture, get your finger off the trigger private! Now drop and give me twenty!

When did this "keep you finger off the trigger" start? As a cadet and boy soldier 1960's then man service it was thumb on safety catch and finger on the trigger, a problem for those with small hands. Of course on the range the safety had to be taken off with the left hand. British Army.

Marc