Markings/dating assistance - bandolier

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I was at a local arms show yesterday and managed to scoop the leather bandolier pictured (along with a bayonet for my Berthier and a box of Canadian 1942-dated .38/200 ammunition).

The bandolier is Canadian C-broad arrow marked and in what I take to be excellent condition. I am hoping the wizards here enhance/correct my understanding of the markings.


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Regretably, my photo efforts only show part of the markings, so here they are, stacked in the order they appear on the bandolier.

13A RCA - with the "A" a smaller size and struck at an angle

12190

12012 overstruck of a different number (indecipherable)

7C RCA - again the letter following the number "C" is smaller than the rest of the text

The RCA no doubt stands for Royal Canadian Artillery, but that's where my knowledge ends. Can someone educate me as to the numbers preceding the RCA and the five-digit serial (?) numbers?

I am largely unfamiliar with evolution in webbing, and there is no date stamped into the piece, but there is what appears to be a maker's mark. Tough to make out against the leather but, possibly "Speigings"
"1031 Bleury" (The corresponds to an address in Montreal)

?? Any sense of date?

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Thanks in advance.
 
If I had to guess I'd say the 13th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA. The unit doesn't currently exist and I can't find any reference to where it was, but there's a 12th and a 15th so there must have been a 13th. I found references to the 13th in WW1 and WW2 but of course your bandolier predates either.
 
These bandoliers were certainly OLD, but they were also issued to Militia regiments well into the 1930s.

I picked up one a few years ago which had been put into storage in the middle of War 2. It was stuffed to help keep the shape of the pockets....... but it was stuffed with GASOLINE RATION COUPONS which were not valid if removed from their books.
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