I have one of those hanging from my house. I love the Red Ensign. The Maple Leaf flag is a nice flag as well. Very unique.
The Red Ensign tells you more though.
Yeah I’ve found it quite strange that there is no details of a map featuring the Belgian defenders. And the uniforms were different, it wouldn’t be a simple matter of replacing a skin here. Canadians would be much simpler to implement than Belgians. We’re talking patches, which we know are a thing in the game, and cap badges.
Tells you more of what? Imperialism and the provinces?
To be fair, I find it pretty but unrepresentative of the Canadian reality of the time.
It is the only one that makes sense in the setting however.
The Union Jack shows our roots as a Dominion of the Empire and the Coat of arms shows the common backgrounds of the European settlers. Harp for Irish/celtics, Fleur de lys for the French, etc etc…
I know some people take issue with the Union Jack, but then again the Queen is still our Queen. I had to swear the Oath of Allegiance when I served and every document I handled had 'c. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada" on the bottom of every page.
The one I have is this version of the Red Ensign:
Although this one wasn’t the standard until 1921
The one you posted would have been the WW1 era. I got them mixed up. My bad.
Hail from Montrelabad. To the risk of seeming a bit of a Québec cliché, she may be your Queen, but I’ll be damned if I recognize her as any such thing. Unlike what you might think tho, it’s not any sort of nationalistic sentiments that motivates that inclination but a deep seated dislike of monarchies as a whole and of hereditary privilege.
If they add custom emblems, you can be sure I’ll be re-creating the patch of the 22nd Battalion.
Right on. I’m from Newfoundabad al Labrador
I’m a quarter french. My grandpa on my mom’s side was from Trois Riviere. Quebec is beautiful.
I’m going to be doing the Royal Newfoundland Regiment patch for sure. It’s my avatar. Hopefully there’ll be a Somme map of some sort. Beaumont-Hamel would be cool, but I’m guessing it’s unlikely.
Hereditary privilege is pretty out of touch in the modern era. I do agree.
Did you know the early high kings of Scotland were elected? Celtic law had no concept of primogeniture (1st son is next monarch).
MacBeth was overthrown because the English backed a son of a former king of Scotland and invaded.
The basically forced the concept on the Scots.
Anyhow, just a tid bit of useless info.
Right on. The Fencibles did some crazy stuff during that war. I’m sure you already know this, but they captured two US warships in a night raid. One was the Scorpion. Because of this many of the current Royal Newfoundland Regiment members get a scorpion tattoo on their right forearm.
I think the most extraordinary thing is the range of assignments they received. Not only were they infantry and marines but were often also competent sailors and saw service as such too.