Wwi 2Nd Infantry Battalion Collar Tab Pair Cef Auction German trenches very heavily manned

German trenches very heavily manned and enemy very much on the alert

while over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription "HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH

For reasons which are not entirely clear

issued to Oberleutnant Erich Huck

Wwi 2Nd Infantry Battalion Collar Tab Pair Cef Auction German trenches very heavily mannedWWI 2nd Infantry Battalion Collar Tab Pair CEF White metal, unmarked, 13. 5 mm x 27. 8 mm each, intact lugs, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Eastern Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Camp Valcartier, Quebec under the authority of P. C. O. 2067, August 6, 1914. The Battalion sailed October 3, 1914 with a strength of 45 officers and 1,098 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant Colonel D. Watson. The Battalion served in