cWW1 Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC) Brass Shoulder Title Badge Caron Makers CEF

cWWI, C.A.S.C. Shoulder title badge maker marked 'Caron Bros Montreal 191(6?). End date not clear.

Caron Brothers were a Montreal Canada firm who made buttons and badges in the 19th century and up through WWI. They were still doing it in 1920 but had also gotten into gasoline engines and seem to have disappeared as badge makers by WWII.

The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC) was an administrative and transport corps of the Canadian Army. The Canadian Army Service Corps was established in the Non-Permanent Active Militia in 1901 and in the Permanent Active Militia in 1903. The Canadian Permanent Army Service Corps was redesignated The 'Royal' Canadian Army Service Corps on 3 Nov 1919

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