Insignia

►Rank & Appointment Insignia

Chris Brooker's CEF Guide

Cap Badges

►Crowns

►Corps & Services 1939-1945

►Mounted Units 1939-1945

Collar Badges

►1920-1952

 Metal Shoulder Titles

 Slip-On Shoulder Titles 

Buttons 1939-1945

Formation Patches
►C.E.F. Troops  
►1st Canadian Army

►Canadian Military HQ

►1st Canadian Corps

►2nd Canadian Corps

►Atlantic Command

►Pacific Command

►1st Canadian Division

►2nd Canadian Division

►3rd Canadian Division

►4th Canadian Division

►5th Canadian Division

►6th Canadian Division

►7th Canadian Division

►8th Canadian Division

►1st Armoured Brigade

►2nd Armoured Brigade

►3rd Armoured Brigade

►Misc. & Foreign 1939-45  
►Postwar .

Nationality

Miscellaneous Insignia

►Active Service Badges

►Good Conduct Chevrons

►Instructors Badges

►Tank Badges
 ►Lanyards
 ►NCO Corps Badges
 ►Service Chevrons
 ►Wound Stripes
 ►National Insignia

►Special Distinctions

 

Canadian Military Headquarters Formation Insignia

Canadian military forces in the United Kingdom also had their own set of distinguishing formation patches of various construction.1

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CMHQ Patches

Right -  courtesy Bill Alexander (click to enlarge)

Below - courtesy Dwayne Hordij.

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The gold wire versions were worn by officers on Service Dress; note also the Canadian Army Pacific Force patch in the scan at right.  Soldiers in Europe volunteering for the CAPF were instructed to place the CAPF hexagon over their current formation patches.

Notes

  1. Law, Clive M. Distinguishing Patches: Formation Patches of the Canadian Army (2nd Ed.) Service Publications, Ottawa, ON, 2008 ISBN 978-1-894581-50-9

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