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1998.133.008
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1998.133
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Badge, Cap
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Cap Badge - Stormont,Dundas & Glengarry
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BADGES
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Cap Badge - Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders
Cap Badge - Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (Queen's Crown)
Badge: A pomme surmounted in base by an autumnal maple leaf flanked by thistles proper all issuant from a pair of barnacles Or ensigned by a raven close perched on a rock proper, and in chief by the letters SDG Argent below a scroll Or inscribed GLENGARRY FENCIBLES and above two like scrolls inscribed DILEAS and GU BAS ("Faithful unto death"), the whole ensigned by the Royal Crown proper and surmounting a saltire Argent.
The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders originated in Cornwall, Ontario, on 3 July 1868, as the 59th "Stormont and Glengarry Battalion of Infantry". It was redesignated as the 59th "Stormont" Battalion of Infantry on 22 June 1883; as the 59th Stormont and Glengarry Battalion of Infantry on 23 March 1888; and as the 59th Stormont and Glengarry Regiment on 8 May 1900. Following the Great War it was redesignated as The Stormont and Glengarry Regiment on 12 March 1920; as The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders on 15 February 1922; as the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders on 7 November 1940; as the The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders on 24 May 1946; and as The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (Machine Gun) on 1 September 1954 before returning to its designation as the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders on 1 August 1959.

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