WW2 Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada Cap Badge

Originele (géén imitatie) The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada Cap Badge  (ca. 7.3 x 7.3 cm)

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) were originally raised in 1903 as the 91st Regiment Canadian Highlanders in Hamilton, Ontario. The regiment was garrisoned in Jamaica from 1941 until 1943. In 1944, they landed in Normandy and fought in Operation Totalize. During the battle of the Falaise Pocket two companies of Argylls secured the town of Saint-Lambert-sur-Dives that finally completed the Allied encirclement of the Germans. They held the town for three days, facing desperate counter-attacks. The Argylls later fought in The Netherlands during the battle for the Scheldt estuary, and in 1945 fought during Operation Veritable in the Hochwald Forest of Germany. The regiment earned 16 battle honours during the war and lost 267 men.