A Canadian Airborne Regiment Shoulder Flash Auction Red Cross Decoration - 3rd

Red Cross Decoration - 3rd Class

An SA II/161 Battalion Pennant

In the rank of Captain (Honourary Lieutenant in the Army)

recipient of the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves

No damage was done to the prizes

A Canadian Airborne Regiment Shoulder Flash Auction Red Cross Decoration - 3rdWhite embroidered lettering "AIRBORNE CANADA" on a hunter green wool base, black cotton mesh backer, 35 mm x 78 mm, extremely fine. Footnote: The Canadian Airborne Regiment was a Canadian Forces formation created on April 8, 1968. It was not an administrative regiment in the commonly accepted British Commonwealth sense, but rather a tactical formation manned from other regiments and branches. It was disbanded in 1995 after the Somalia Affair.