Third Canadian Tank Brigade Formation Insignia

Collar Badges

►1920-1952

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

3rd Canadian Tank Brigade/Armoured Brigade Formation Insignia

Soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Tank Brigade (later redesignated Armoured Brigade) wore diamond shaped formation patches which were adopted in late 1942.¹

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Images and artifacts above courtesy Bill Alexander. Click to enlarge.

Image and artifacts at left courtesy Mark Giroux, Ontario Regiment Museum.

Notes

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