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UNIFORM

  • Cap badge:

  • Shoulder title:

  • --- English : "SIGNALS" (all uniforms)

  • --- French : "TRANS" (Service Dress tunic), "TRANSMISSIONS" (all other uniforms)

  • Miscellaneous:

  • --- Officers may wear box spurs with Mess Dress , perpetuating the Cavalry heritage of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (through the Royal Canadian Engineers)

  • --- The Signalman's trade qualification badge (worn on the lower sleeve of the Service Dress jacket) is the only such trade badge that features colours (blue and white) instead of just gold

    • CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS


  • Colonel-in-Chief: Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal

  • Branch flag: Horizontal bicolour, French grey (Munsell Notation 5PB5/2) over dark blue (Munsell Notation 7.5PB2/2). It is commonly believed that the colours of the flag represent "grey skies over blue waters"; however, the colours were inherited from the officer's Mess Dress uniforms of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (RCCS), which were in turn inherited from the 21st Lancers , the first unit of Major Carruthers , founder of the RCCS

  • Home Station: CFB Kingston , Ontario

  • Motto: "VELOX VERSUTUS VIGILANS" ( Latin , "Swift, Skilled, Alert")

  • Nickname:

  • ---"Jimmies" – after "Jimmy", the nickname given to the Roman god Mercury as patron (and insignia) of Signals in Commonwealth counties; the origin of this particular sobriquet for the god in unknown

  • ---"Sigs" – after the abbreviation of "Signals"

  • ---"Sig Pigs" – rhyming slang name; sometimes used deprecatingly by non-Signalmen, generally with pride by Signalmen

  • Authorized march: " The Mercury March "

  • Branch colours: French grey and dark blue

  • Miscellaneous:

  • ---Signals units (including Communication Reserve units) follow the Cavalry practice of naming their units "Regiment" for "Battalion", "Squadron" for "Company", and "Troop" for "Platoon".

  • --- Private (rank) s in Signals units are styled "Signaller" (Sig).



OCCUPATIONS


Officer - Communications and Electronics Engineering (Air)

Officer - Signals

Line Technician

Signal Operator

Aerospace Telecommunication & Information Systems Technician

Land Communications and Information Systems Technician

Communicator Research Operator


ORDER OF PRECEDENCE


  Before Canadian Military Engineers
  Title Communications and Electronics Branch