Cap, Forage, RCEME

A forage cap is a small military cap with a visor and a round flat crown to be worn with undress uniforms.

Cap, Forage, RCEME  - 5. RCEME              The Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) cap badge has changed many times since the Corps’ inception.

CF Green service dress forage cap with badge is shown at the left.

In May 1944, the first RCEME badge was worn proudly by Canada’s craftsmen, on D-Day, and in the latter stages of the Italian Campaign. A new badge was struck in June 1949 and adopted the following year. This badge was similar to the British REME badge. Its official description is “superimposed with a lightning flash, a horse forcene (rearing on hind legs), gorged with a coronet of four fleur-de-lis (a lily), a chain reflexed over its back and standing on a globe inscribed with the Western Hemisphere, superimposed across the lightning flash behind the horse’s head, a scroll inscribed “RCEME”. The whole is surmounted by the Crown.”

The horse and chain, symbolizing power under control, formed part of the logo of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and together with the lightning flash of Electrical Engineering, was intended to mark the close relationship between these branches of engineering. The globe is indicative of the impact of mechanical and electrical engineering on the world generally. On the officer’s badge, the lightning flash, scroll and crown were gilt (gold covered), the horse and globe silver. The badge for other ranks was similar to the officer’s badge except that it was in brass and white metal. In 1956 forage caps bearing colored bands in corps colours was adapted. Examples of some previous RCEME cap badges below.

Cap, Forage, RCEME  - Land Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Branch badgeCap, Forage, RCEME  - Badge-LORE-1974Cap, Forage, RCEME  - Badge-RCEME-1952-240x300Cap, Forage, RCEME  - Badge-RCEME-1949-240x300Cap, Forage, RCEME  - Badge-RCEME-1944-240x3001944 1949 1952 1968 Present

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