Canada. Two First War Cef Machine Gun Corps Cap Badges Auction Archive a pair of crossed swords

a pair of crossed swords centred by a ribbon insignia sewn in place to the red velvet

reverse in Polish and named to Kraskowski

Footnote: The Reverend Leonard Thomas Strong was born in June 1872 and was a very devout man

the matchbox marked "LICENSED MATCH / RED TOP / IMPREGNATED / SAFETY MATCH / THE DIAMOND MATCH CO

Canada. Two First War Cef Machine Gun Corps Cap Badges Auction Archive a pair of crossed swordsCanada; First cap badge is bronze, unmarked, 52. 3 mm (w) x 43. 5 mm (h), both lugs intact. Second cap badge is bronze, 52 mm (w) x 44. 5 mm, with a replacement slider, spots of greening. Light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: When war came in 1914, millionaire Raymond Brutinel, a French army reserve officer who was living in Montreal, in collaboration with a prominent lawyer, Clifford Sifton, hit upon the idea of mounting machine guns on