Canada, CEF. A 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac very crisp sharp details

very crisp sharp details

The queen's reception ended the three week WWI flyers reunion which began with a London dinner hosted by the Canadian High Commissioner Charles Bitchie

November 1889” (German - In Remembrance Of The Visit Of His Majesty The German Emperor Wilhelm II To His Majesty the Emperor The Ottoman Abdul al-Hamid II In Constantinople November 2

hallmarked on integral ring with A7 date mark (1954)

Canada, CEF. A 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac very crisp sharp detailsIn 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