Wwi 172Nd Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Cef Archive a long-served Coastal Command W

a long-served Coastal Command W

two numbers are engraved

2nd Class for Eighteen Years' Service - Silvered bronze

11" x 33" headband - headband is hand painted with black Kanji and a red sun on a fine cotton linen

All the same

Wwi 172Nd Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Cef Archive a long-served Coastal Command WWWI 172nd Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF Browning copper, maker marked "O. B. ALLAN" on the reverse, 42. 7 mm x 51 mm, intact lugs and pin, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in the Kamloops area of British Columbia, with mobilization headquarters at Kamloops under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed October 25, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Vicars with a strength of 32 officers and 972