Canada, CEF. A 56th Infantry Battalion "Calgary Battalion" Cap Badge GTRexclude Basel and Strasbourg

Basel and Strasbourg

featuring five decorations constructed of Gold and silver with multi-coloured enamels

the other marked with the same map

RFA Battalion Group Photograph taken in front of a Building in Vicenza

1918 in Brandon

Canada, CEF. A 56th Infantry Battalion "Calgary Battalion" Cap Badge GTRexclude Basel and StrasbourgIn pickled copper, unmarked, measuring 35. 8 mm (w) x 38. 5 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Calgary, Alberta under the authority of G. O. 86, July 1, 1915. The Battalion embarked Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 23, 1916 aboard the S. S. Baltic, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. C. G. Armstrong with a strength of 40 officers and 1,070 other ranks, arriving in