WWI era Vancouver Regiment
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You are viewing a WWI Vancouver Regiment brass cap badge .Excellent condition brass badge with both original lugs intact and in good usable order. A rare find among uniform accoutrements for the interwar period ...
The Vancouver Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia. The regiment was formed in 1924 when the 1st British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) was Reorganized into three separate regiments. In 1936, the regiment was Amalgamated with The Irish Fusiliers of Canada to form The Irish Fusiliers of Canada (The Vancouver Regiment, now part of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own).
In WWI they were part of the 29th Battalion, (Vancouver), CEF. The 1st Battalion (redesignation of the 2nd Battalion, 1st British Columbia Regiment - perpetuating the 29th Battalion, CEF) and the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion (redesignation of the 5th Battalion, 1st British Columbia Regiment - perpetuating the 158th Battalion, CEF)
Here is a list of their Battle honors ... Mount Sorrel, Somme, 1916, '18, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Ancre Heights,Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Scarpe, 1917, '18, Hill 70,Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Drocourt-Qu?ant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders, 1915?18.
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