Canada, CEF. An 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic ribbon is worn

ribbon is worn

503 were to the King's German Legion for their gallantry during the Peninsular War as well as the infamous Waterloo Campaign

with all but two retaining paper labels bearing handwritten information

1924 at age 24

he kept the faith

Canada, CEF. An 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic ribbon is wornIn pickled copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 35. 5 mm (w) x 39. 2 mm (h), both lugs intact, obverse exhibiting greening and blackened with age, light contact, better than very fine. Footnote: The 81st Infantry Battalion was raised and mobilized in Toronto, under the authority of G. O. 103A, August 15, 1915. The Battalion sailed April 28, 1916 with a strength of 36 officers and 1,067 other ranks, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel B. H. Belson.