Ontario Regiment trivia

[Bill A]

The original cloth title worn by the Ontario Regiment had the word Regiment fully spelled out. As part of the 1 Canadian Army Tank Brigade the three units had included Canada as a superscipt on their titles. When the Canadian Armoured Corps opted to use the CAC titles with imposed regimental designations on the formation patch in late 1942, the Ontario's, Calgary Regt Tank and the Three Rivers Regiment adopted the lozenge patches with their respective tank battalion number. These were ordered in late 1942. In early 1944 the decision was made by CMHQ that all units would wear regimental titles and plain formation patches. This required 1 CAB (redesignated from CTB) to adopt shoulder titles once again. These were now the printed pattern. For some reason the Ontario Regiment title was made with REGT instead of the fully spelled designation. The printed pattern were not available until 1 Cdn Corps moved to NW Europe in late winter 1945. When the army began moving bacl to embroidered titles, a sample was requested from the Ontario's to be used as a template. The printed pattern was sent, resulting in the embroidered titles that had the abbreviated REGT. These date to very late wartime.

[fearnaught]

Hi Bill, for completeness when did they go back to the title in full over Canada, yellow on black? Thanks in advance and all the best for the New Year, Mike

[Bill A]

Hi Mike, I think you are referring to the CF uniform titles? These were authorized sometime in the late 1970's or early 1980's.