A Canadian Airborne Regiment Shoulder Flash Auction removed from uniform

removed from uniform

RCAF cap badge

Naming is officially impressed on the VM and personally engraved on the SVCM

75mm x 91mm (or approximately 3 x 3 1/2 inches)

A Canadian Airborne Regiment Shoulder Flash Auction removed from uniformWhite embroidered lettering "AIRBORNE CANADA" on a hunter green wool base, black cotton mesh backer, 35 mm x 78 mm, extremely fine. Footnote: The Canadian Airborne Regiment was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. It was not an administrative regiment in the commonly accepted British Commonwealth sense, but rather a tactical formation manned from other regiments and branches. It was disbanded in 1995 after the Somalia Affair.