Army Cadet and Cadet Instructor displays

[shootemup]

This is part of my collection of Royal Canadian Army Cadet and Cadet Services of Canada to Cadet Instructor Cadre badges. You will notice I'm only interested in the Army side of the house.

The first is a small assortment of the Royal Canadian Army Cadet shoulder flashes and maple leaf patches, with the three different styles of cap badges, including the current embroidered cloth issue.

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The second is an array of the Cadet Services of Canada badges, patches, and lanyard, and Cadet Instructor List and Cadet Instructor Cadre Badges, including embroidered styles.

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[Phillip Herring]

I don't believe that the CIL shoulder titles go with the tri-service Cadet Instructor List cap badgeas these shoulder titles would have come out after the introduction of DEU in the mid to late 1980s.

Phil

[shootemup]

You are correct. The CIL titles were used on the DEU and by that time the newer style CIL/CIC cap and collar badges were becoming available and mandatory for wear. The CIC titles were worn in Quebec instead of the CIL titles because of the French translation of Cadet Instructor List, which led to the renaming to the Cadet Instructor Cadre to standardize the titles.

Here is a 1945 dated Army Cadet coloured field service cap and badge:

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[Phillip Herring]

When I joined air cadets in 1979, the "new" badges were being worn by all three elements - bronze maple leaf with eagle, crossed swords or anchor. The embroidered cap badges were also being worn.

Phil

[shootemup]

It is interesting to note that the tri-elemental CIL badge (cookie cutter) pictured was so unpopular that the elemental badges were developed and supplied, but have never been approved, despite being commonly worn for the last 40 years. The CIL "cookie cutter" collars, for all elements, are available today from any number of sources still in the original packaging, obviously not used very widely. Most CIL officers persisted in the traditional practice of wearing the accoutrements of the affiliated unit, rather than the "cookie cutters". The scarcity of the CSofC collars leads me to believe that they also were not in widespread use, officers opting instead to wear the affiliated regiment's accoutrements. Various pictures of the cadet camps show that the KC CSofC badge (Cadets Canada on the banner) and QC CSofC badge (Cadet Services of Canada on the banners) were most often worn by civilian instructors and officer cadets.