Canada, CEF. A 48th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 652 of the 2nd Class

652 of the 2nd Class were issued during the war

Humpe and the rest of his crew had been tasked with attacking Russian supply lines on the railway track between Belgorod and Kursk

consisting of a shovel with a mobile swastika superimposed on the spade and two wheat stalks at the base standing in a V formation

maker marked "B" and number stamped "14199" on the reverse

Canada, CEF. A 48th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic 652 of the 2nd ClassIn pickled copper, unmarked, measuring 35. 3 mm (w) x 40. 7 mm (h), both lugs intact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in British Columbia under the authority of G. O. 86, July 1, 1915, with the mobilization headquarters at Victoria. The Battalion sailed July 1, 1915 aboard the R. M. S. Grampian, with a strength of 38 officers and 1,020 other ranks, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. J. H. Holmes, arriving in England on July