Badge
During World War II the insignia of the Division was a yellow four-leafed clover (some versions appear as three-leafed -see images) flanked on each side by a yellow three-leafed clover, their stalks forming a "V", all on a red background. The Division and its members were thus referred to as "clovers".
During the period the Scotsmen of the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders served in the division, its Jock soldiers fondly referred to the division insignia as "the three wee floo'ers" (the three little flowers).
In its second incarnation the formation sign of the Division depicts a red dagger superimposed on two overlapping gold circles on a black background.
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