Wwi 238Th Infantry Battalion "Canadian Forestry Battalion" Cap Badge GTRexclude Silver Merit Medal 1914 -

Silver Merit Medal 1914 - With Swords suspension

attached to the helmet via a u-shaped prong on the back of the cockade and slid behind the shako plate

was killed in action in August 1918

the United Kingdom and Continental Europe (France

1936 - Black ink on pressed white cardboard

Wwi 238Th Infantry Battalion "Canadian Forestry Battalion" Cap Badge GTRexclude Silver Merit Medal 1914 -WWI 238th Infantry Battalion "Canadian Forestry Battalion" Cap Badge Pickled brass, voided, unmarked, 40. 8 mm x 45. 5 mm, intact lugs, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Ontario and Quebec with mobilization headquarters at Valcartier under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed September 11, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Smith with a strength of 44 officers and 1,088 other ranks. In