Cap Badge - Canadian Armoured Corps [CANADIAN ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES TRAINING CENTRE], shows WW I tank with a crown on top and a wreath "Canada" underneath, all in white metal. The badge is modelled from the British Royal Tank Regiment insignia. Reference: Brooker's Badges of the Canadian Army Volume 1, page 98 Badge 115-11-204 The tank had its roots in the First World War. However, Canada did not employ in combat any tank units until the Second World War. Motorized machine gun units, using wheeled vehicles, had been very successfully employed by the Canadians in WW I but disbanded at war's end in 1918. Seven British tanks went into action with the Motor Machine Gun Brigade at Courcelette, and British tracked vehicles again supported Canadian infantry at Amiens in August 1918. A Canadian Tank Corps was created in 1918, with three battalions that was disbanded in 1920. The question of acquiring armoured vehicles did not come up again until 1927. A plan to get 4 tracked Mark I tanks was not heeded, and a long acquisition process began in which Canadian-built wheeled armoured cars were developed. The Canadian Militia (as the Army was known until 1940) was slow to mechanize, and the value of horses versus the value of tanks was hotly debated between the wars. Horsed cavalry units stayed in existence until after the Second World War began in 1939. Six infantry regiments were designated (Tank) units in 1936, but remained part of the infantry branch. Initially, no tanks were available for training. A Canadian Tank School (Canadian Army Training Centres and Schools) was established in Camp Borden that year, becoming the Canadian Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in 1938. A handful of British Carden-Lloyd Machine Gun Carriers #8 had been purchased in the early 1930s for training, and some British Mk. VI B Light Tanks arrived in Canada in 1938. Still, no tanks were available for the six Tank regiments, nor at the school - all part-time units of the Non-Permanent Active Militia - to train with. The first large delivery of modern tanks arrived in the summer of 1939. The CAFVS (School) became the Canadian Armoured Fighting Vehicle Training Centre after the outbreak of war.