Service chevrons

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Ed, are you suggesting black service stripes were worn overseas prior to the introduction of the red ones? I've seen no photographic evidence of that.

I'd have to dig it out but there was another point of friction between Canadian and overseas troops. If I recall the calculation was different for each group and once Canadian stationed troops (I won't call them zombies) went overseas this discrepancy potentially gave them one more stripe than someone who had been in Europe since 1940 for the same time in.