General Question About Insignia

[alex_b]

Hello,   I'm a Brit. x-mil Sgt.   At the moment I am doing research for a book - we all seem to write books nowadays - on Airborne and Special Forces Insignia, what they are and what it takes to earn them.   Now I know a fair bit about Euro wings and what is necesary to earn them - is there anywhere I can get a heads up on what all the current variants of Canadian para wings look like.   All variants: working dress; mess dress; combats - do you have No 2 dress and No 1 dress.

Basically, like we tell the troops 'if you don't know ask' - well chaps I'm asking, can anyone help please.

Regards from the UK

Alex B

 

[LCISTech227]

Hey, Just caught this post...

I found this website that shows all the various badges worn by the Canadian Airborne Regiment.   It shows all of the ones we use on our uniforms still, as far as what you need to wear the different ones I think that the red leaf means they are qualified Basic Parachutist, and the White leaf means they have served with an active Jump Company.   Not 100 percent on that, and I'm sure people will correct me if I'm wrong.

Here's the link:

http://www.commando.org/badges.php  

Cheers

 

[Horse_Soldier]

Hey, Just caught this post...

I found this website that shows all the various badges worn by the Canadian Airborne Regiment.   It shows all of the ones we use on our uniforms still, as far as what you need to wear the different ones I think that the red leaf means they are qualified Basic Parachutist, and the White leaf means they have served with an active Jump Company.   Not 100 percent on that, and I'm sure people will correct me if I'm wrong.

Here's the link:

http://www.commando.org/badges.php  

Cheers

There are a few mistakes on that site.  What is shown as the "Officer's Mess Dress White Wings" are the old pre-unification Blue Patrol wings, before there was a distinction between "white" and "red" wings.  Also, "white" wings aren't awarded for having served in the Airborne Regiment, they are awarded for having served in an operational parachute position, which includes, for instance the Canadian Parachute Centre among others.  There may be other small errors that I haven't picked-up on a cursory inspection. 

 

[alex_b]

Thank you for your time gentlemen, it is very much appreciated.

Alex

 

[Michael OLeary]

alex_b, you may want to contact the owner of this site - http://www.grimshaw-military.on.ca/site/index.cfm. Lou is a militaria dealer and a colector of airborne insignia himself.