A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 Newly Listed and Iron Cross 1st Class

and Iron Cross 1st Class

In his Medical History of Invalid

15 x 60 mm

in blackened non-magnetic metal

A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 Newly Listed and Iron Cross 1st ClassCanada; Bronze, unmarked, 18 mm x 24. 5 mm, horizontal pinback, on a 27 mm x 49 mm ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The Farm Service Corps (Farmerettes) was created in response to the labour shortage during the First World War and was an initiative of the Ontario government, similar in purpose to the national Soldiers of the Soil program, but aimed mainly at women. Its farmerettes assisted in all aspects of farm work, replacing the labour of men lost