Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design Newly Listed Kindly acknowledge receipt

Kindly acknowledge receipt

on September 6th

Footnote: The badge was established in 1945

typical of S & L pre 1945 manufactured KC

Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design Newly Listed Kindly acknowledge receiptIn copper gilt, voided, measuring 53. 5 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), both lugs intact, traces of gilt remains, 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 armoured cars, thus providing the double threat of firepower and mobiity. Sifton took the idea to the