Canada, CEF. A 100th Infantry Battalion "Winnipeg Grenadiers" Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic in original envelope

in original envelope

The photographs depict servicemen during their training in several different parts of Canada

September 7th

Footnote: The National Order of Civil Merit was instituted on 2 August 1891 and was awarded to civil servants

Canada, CEF. A 100th Infantry Battalion "Winnipeg Grenadiers" Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic in original envelopeIn blackened brass, unmarked, measuring 38. 5 mm (w) x 52 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Winnipeg, Manitoba under authority of G. O. 151, December 22, 1915. The Battalion sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on September 18, 1916 aboard the S. S. Olympic, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel J. B. Mitchell with a strength of 31 officers and 880 other ranks,