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First Canadian Army Formation Insignia Canada fielded a national army for the first time in its history during the Second World War. A logical extension of the existing formation patch series, itself a continuation of those originally adopted by the divisions of the Canadian Corps in 1916, was the adoption of a geometric shape, a red diamond as for 1st Corps, with a blue bar horizontally through the middle.1 First Canadian Army troops adopted shoulder patches made from three materials mainly (canvas, felt and wool). Members of various corps serving in support units came to wear formationpatches with letters in the middle. A formation patch with a maroon coloured strip in the middle was worn by some members of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC).2 Soldiers whose units were directly attached to lower formations (Corps, Division, or independent Brigade) wore the formation patches of those formations.
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