Canada. An 80Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge United Republic of August: fourteen missions

August: fourteen missions

1940 at Fort Crook

101 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel S

illustrating an angled swastika

Footnote: this Luftwaffe General’s Brocade Belt & Buckle belonged to Walter von Hippel (27 May 1897 – 29 November 1972)

Canada. An 80Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge United Republic of August: fourteen missionsIn pickled copper, voided, measuring 42. 7 mm (w) x 44 mm (h), both lugs intact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Eastern Ontario under the authority of G. O. 103A, August 15, 1915. The mobilization headquarters was at Barriefield, Ontario. The Battalion embarked Canada on May 16, 1916 aboard the S. S. Baltic, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. G. Ketcheson with a strength of 35 officers and 1,041 other ranks, arriving in