Wwi 178Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Cef Newly Listed rebuilding trenches

rebuilding trenches

Conscientious

2 mm x 42 mm

meaning the only way they made it back home was on the arms of officers and "borrowed" in field packs and ruck-sacks

Army Long Service Decoration –in gilded iron

Wwi 178Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Cef Newly Listed rebuilding trenchesWWI 178th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF Version I Pickled copper, unmarked, 32. 8 mm x 44. 7 mm, intact lugs and pin, one lug bent forward, scattered gilt wear, better than very fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Quebec and Eastern Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Victoriaville, Quebec under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed March 4, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel L. de la B. Girouard