cWW2 Canadian New Brunswick (NB) Rangers 'Paste Back' Cloth Shoulder Title

A perfect example of a British made 'paste/starch backed' N.B. (New Brunswick) Rangers embroidered shoulder title patch.

The New Brunswick Rangers mobilized the 1st Battalion, The New Brunswick Rangers, CASF, on 1 January 1941. It was redesignated as The 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade Support Group (The New Brunswick Rangers) on the 1 November 1943 as The 10th Independent Machine Gun Company (The New Brunswick Rangers), CIC, CASF on 24 February 1944.

The unit served at Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada in a home defence role as part of Atlantic Command from June 1942 to July 1943.

It embarked for Britain on 13 September 1943. On 26 July 1944, the company landed in France as part of the 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Armoured Division, and it continued to fight in North-West Europe until the end of the war. The overseas company was disbanded on 15 February 1946.

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