Description
Physical description
badge
An upward curve of dark blue printed "waterproof" cotton with a yellow printed rectangular extension centrally below, all with squared ends (Waring shape 7), on which printed in yellow serif capitals FORT GARRY HORSE above and CANADA in similar blue letters below.
Label
Versions of this title exist in embroidered form.
The badge dates from after July 1943, the date at which this unit changed from the 3rd Tank Brigade's black and grey sign with the abbreviation 10CTR to a plain 2nd Tank (soon Armoured) Brigade patch with a unit shoulder title.
For an account of 3rd Tank and 2nd Tank / Armoured Brigade patches, see INS 252 and 46.
History note
Associated person: John Tiffin Murray Stewart b. 1917, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. d. 6 August 1964, 47 yrs., heart attack. Service record: Gunner M 4044 RCA. 1942: Reg. H2, HQ RCA, 1st Administration Corps. RCA CASF (Canadian Active Service Force) 1st Division. 1943: Reg. H3, 3rd Field Regt. RCA CASF 1st Division. 1944: 1st A Wing. No. 1 CARU (Canadian Artillery Reinforcement Unit).
Family history: 11 December 1942, married Elfreda Joan, nee Knight, at Congregational Church West Wickham, Kent. 15 June 1945, returned Canada. 27 June 1946, joined by family (on board 'Letitia'). August 1948, all family return to UK ('Queen Mary'). Moved to family home, Cavendish Way, West Wickham, Kent. Subsequently bought house, Oak Avenue, Shirley, Croydon.
History note
Bibliographical sources: CANADA'S ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: Badges and Histories of the Corps and Regiments. F. R. Tripp. Unitrade Press, Toronto, 1983 FORMATION AND UNIT SIGNS OF THE BRITISH REGULAR ARMY AND TERRITORIAL ARMY. Major John Waring. Identification Pamphlet No. 1. Privately published, no date (c. 1950s) Key to Shapes of Shoulder Titles. Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Volume III: THE VICTORY CAMPAIGN, Operations in North West Europe 1944 –1945. Col. C. P. Stacey. Ottawa, 1960. The Fort Garry Horse in the Second World War. Anon (Captain Frank Davidson, Editor / collator) n.i. (Doetinchem), nd (1945. http://www.fortgarryhorse.ca (January 2007)
Inscription
FORT GARRY HORSE / CANADA