Canada, CEF. A 217th Infantry Battalion "Qu'Appelle Battalion" Cap Badge visually-hidden WWI Wound Badge

WWI Wound Badge

dated 26 February 1935

Virginia for the last twenty years of his life

5 mm (h) inclusive of its silver gilt coat-of-arms suspension

with a replacement pinback in addition to the addition of chrome

Canada, CEF. A 217th Infantry Battalion "Qu'Appelle Battalion" Cap Badge visually-hidden WWI Wound BadgeIn pickled copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 37 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Saskatchewan with mobilization headquarters at Moosomin under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 2, 1917 under the authority of Lieutenant Colonel A. B. Gillis with a strength of 24 officers and 634 other ranks, arriving in Liverpool, England