A nice Canadian/British made cap badge to the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars

This is a good example of a nice Canadian/British made cap badge to the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars. The regiment subsequently mobilized the '3rd Canadian Motorcycle Regiment, CASF (17 H)' for active service on 24 May 1940. It was redesignated '17th (Active) Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars, CASF' on 1 February 1941. It embarked for Britain on 23 August 1941. Detachments of the regiment landed in Normandy as part of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on 6 June 1944, followed by the remainder of the regiment in the course of June and July 1944. The unit fought in North West until the end of the war.The regiment was disbanded on 15 January 1946.

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