four slots cut into both the red and white cotton on the back behind the insignia
Manitoba with the 8th Infantry Battalion
on loop for suspension (marked 55)
"M9/25" and maker marked "Richard Sieper & Sohne Ludenscheid" on the reverse
Silvered bronze with a bronze gilt inserted centrepiece
A First War 119Th Infantry Battalion "Algoma Overseas Battalion" Cap Badge Buy Now four slots cut into bothCanada: Pickled brass, unmarked, 35 mm x 42. 8 mm, both lugs intact, light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in the Algoma and Manitoulin areas of Ontario, with mobilization headquarters at Sault Ste. Marie under the authority of G. O. 151, December 22, 1915. The Battalion sailed on August 9, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel T. P. T. Rowland with a strength of 32 officers and 935 other ranks. Upon arrival in