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THE SOUTH SASKATCHEWAN REGIMENT
Description
A star with eight gold elispes laden with a silver Maltese cross, its points dappled with gules, crowned with the royal crown in its natural state, with oil cake laden with an antelope with forked horns passing over a twist, all of gold, encircled by a ring of gules edged with gold and inscribed "SOUTH SASKATCHEWAN REGIMENT" in letters of the same.
Symbolism
The Crown represents service to the sovereign. The badge is based in part on the badges of two British army regiments with which The South Saskatchewan Regiment was previously allied. An antelope was attributed to the "Royal Warwickshire Regiment" (now "The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers", resulting from a fusion) in recognition of their capture, in 1701, of the standard of a Moorish regiment which sported the old royal badge of the antelope. Here, the antelope is replaced by an American antelope, a species that is found only in North America. The Maltese cross and the eight-pointed star are elements of the insignia of the "Border Regiment" (now the "Duke of Lancaster's Regiment", resulting from a fusion). "SOUTH SASKATCHEWAN REGIMENT" is a variant of the regiment's name.