Canada, CEF. A 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Auction the reverse with a central

the reverse with a central shield

Collecting Orders and Decorations

the obverse bearing central raised initials “W

rather than being sold off (as she was informed that this was apparently the custom after an airman had been missing two months)

the obverse bearing a multi-coloured machine-embroidered shield overlaid by a bow and arrow

Canada, CEF. A 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Auction the reverse with a centralIn pickled copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 35. 2 mm (w) x 39 mm (h), both lugs intact, exhibiting pitting throughout on the obverse, better than very fine. Footnote: The 81st Infantry Battalion was raised and mobilized in Toronto, under the authority of G. O. 103A, August 15, 1915. The Battalion sailed April 28, 1916 with a strength of 36 officers and 1,067 other ranks, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. H. Belson. In England, the