Canada, CEF. An 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Medaglia al valore di marina

Medaglia al valore di marina

with all but two retaining paper labels bearing handwritten information

detailing day-to-day activities from January 14 to 31

demonstrating creases consistent with folding into quadrants

Canada, CEF. An 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Medaglia al valore di marinaIn pickled copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 35. 5 mm (w) x 39. 2 mm (h), both lugs intact, obverse exhibiting greening and blackened with age, light contact, 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.