Canadian Forestry Corps – Battle Dress tunic

A scarce WWII Canadian Forestry Corps battle dress jacket. This Canadian Forestry Corps tunic is in very good condition, worn by a Lieutenant. All insignia are original applied and consisting of printed CANADA shoulder titles and the melton green triangle patches for Canadian Forestry Corps. The jacket is made by S&G Clothing and dated 1943 in large size 16. Shows normal traces of wear. A very rare unit to find, even it was not a fighting unit it was still an important unit for the Canadian army during WWII.

By May 1941, Corps Headquarters was in operation in Scotland with 13 forestry companies (each about 200 men strong), organized into five Forestry Districts each with its own headquarters (in the counties of Inverness, Ross, Aberdeen, Nairn and Perth). Seven more companies arrived in late Jul 1941.

The corps cleared approximately 230,000 forest acres in Scotland during their stay. In 1942, ten additional companies had been raised, the last arriving in Oct 1942. By the spring of 1943, however, manpower problems in the Canadian Army caused the remustering of several hundred soldiers suitable for other employment to other overseas units. In Oct 1943, ten companies were repatriated to Canada (totalling close to 2,000 men) for forestry duties there.

After the landings in Normandy in Jun 1944, ten companies eventually moved to the Continent to continue operations there; 77 square timber rafts and 54 round timber rafts had been created in Southampton to moved timber across the English Channel with them. By the end of Aug 1944, operations had commenced on the continent; six companies of the CFC were called out to hold the line during the German Ardennes Offensive in Dec 1944, when Allied reserves were stretched to the limit.

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Weight	1000 g