Cap badge Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade.

nice EM/NCO WW2 cap badge

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The regiment was formed as an infantry unit, The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment in 1940, a plural form of the name which lasted only a short time. It was converted to an armoured regiment in 1942 becoming 27th Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment) initially as part of the 4th Armoured Brigade.

By the time it went into action it was in the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade. The most prominent former member of the SFR is Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters who was later Director-General Training and Recruiting Canadian Forces.

The second most important artifact from World War II, after the guidon, is a Sherman tank named "Bomb". This M4A2 Sherman landed in Normandy on D-Day, served on the front lines throughout the campaigns from June 1944 to May 1945 in Germany without being destroyed or knocked out. It was returned to Canada after the war, and has been a strong reminder of the sacrifices of the regiment.

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