Canada, CEF. A 208th Infantry Battalion "Canadian Irish" Cap Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac tarnishing on edge

tarnishing on edge

Commander's Cross

mark on reverse

A 1937 Aufmarsch SA Gruppe Hansa Hamburg-Schwerin badge (25-26

the exterior with a maker’s mark of “HAUPTMÜNZAMT WIEN” for the Vienna Mint

Canada, CEF. A 208th Infantry Battalion "Canadian Irish" Cap Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac tarnishing on edgeIn browning copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 43. 3 mm (w) x 54 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Toronto, Ontario under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed May 3, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel T. H. Lennox with a strength of 27 officers and 686 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was broken up and absorbed into the 2nd