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MILITARY CENSORSHIP HANDSTAMPS
OF 'rHE CANADIAN ARMY.
M- CA.C 2.

This hands-tamp is -the most cotnmon ot -the Canadian Army
censor handstamps and comprises a series of numbered
hands-tamps made loca1ly in rubber. 'Basically, they

consist of a double circle }2i m.m in diameter, with the
ou,er edge of ihe circle serrated. ~he words ~MILITARY

CENSOR'' in san seri:f -type 2i tllll high appear-s at the top of
-the handstallp, with -the notation nyn/FO:RCE/ No. " in three
lines in the centre.

These handsiaMps appear ~o have been passed on ~o
successive Units and the handst~ps hava been sub divided
in~o four types, corresponding io the £our di£feren~

regiments or battalions 1hat from time to time comprised
"Y" Porce. Not all -the same hands-tsJJlps were used by each

Unit, 1or ex~ple, the iirsi Uni~ only used ~wo o! ~hem
whilst the second ~ni-t used eight, and to date the handstamps
Numbered 1, 7 and 9 ha~e not been recorded, assuming ihey

exist.
Handstamp M-CAC 2, Number 4, is a variani £rom ihe others

in that there are no inverted coP as around the. letier Y,
and one handstamp is known without a nu~ber. Tom Foster
believed ihis may have been used as an auxilliary handsiamp.

The handstamps are known struck in different co1our.ed
iAks. purp1e, black, blue and red having been recorded,
and perhaps ihe differeni colours were to denoie ihe

di££erent companys etc.
~ates o£ usage of eaQh individual number have noi been

recorded, the overal~,~tes correspond with ~he iour of
duty, excep~ that in the case of -the last two uniis the
usage of M-CAC 2. appears to ha,e ceased about -the 1.si:

April, 1944·