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11-01-10, 01:36 AM
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What is this badge?????
What is the story on this badge??
 - the vendor advertises it as a ""WW2 Canadian Kangaroo badge"".well I know we dont have any kangaroos in COLD (this time of yr) CANADA? so what the hell is it???? Bryan 
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11-01-10, 01:51 AM
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A copy of the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment, nicknamed the" Kangaroos" a 2WW raised unit.
Jo
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11-01-10, 02:19 AM
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Shoulder Badge
Here is the Shoulder Badge. The Armoured Carrier Regiment is the only Canadian unit have been formed and disbanded overseas. The colours represent black for the Armoured Corps and orange for Netherlands, where the regiment was formed.
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#4
11-01-10, 05:48 AM
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Our resident expert on the 'Kangaroos' has a good website :-)
It's worth checking out! http://www.canadiankangaroos.ca/Site/1CACR.html Mick
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11-01-10, 12:44 PM
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A little background:
A Kangaroo was a World War II British or Commonwealth armoured personnel carrier (APC), created by conversion of a tank chassis. Created as an expedient measure by the Canadian Army, the Kangaroos were so successful that they were soon being used by British forces as well. The first Kangaroos were converted from 102 M7 Priest self-propelled guns of the artillery regiments of the three infantry divisions involved in the initial assault on 6 June 1944. These were no longer needed, as the artillery regiments were re-equipped with towed 25 pdr guns in late July. At a field workshop (codenamed Kangaroo, hence the name) they were stripped of the artillery equipment and the front aperture welded over, then sent into service carrying twelve troops. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaro...sonnel_carrier)
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