Accompanied by a 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Cap Badge (pickled copper with red and green enamels
) Naming is impressed with his original rank erased and engraved Sgt
on grey wool backing
John's cross in white on the lid
each is marked "STERLING" on the reverse
Canada, Cef. A 219Th Infantry Battalion "Nova Scotia Highlanders" Glengarry Badge, C.1916 Auction Archive Accompanied by a 5th CanadianIn pickled copper, voided, measuring 53 mm (w) x 64. 5 mm (h), both lugs and pin intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Nova Scotia with mobilization headquarters at Halifax, under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed October 12, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Muirhead with a strength of 33 officers and 997 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was absorbed