set onto backplate with period original backplate and horizontal pinback
stating that he had been with an Active Militia
Thank you letter to financial contributor
obverse illustrating a raised right hand holding a hammer and dated "1925"
and entered military service the same year
Canada, CEF. A 84th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge, Type I United Republic of set onto backplate with periodIn browning copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 38. 2 mm in diameter, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Toronto, Ontario under the authority of G. O. 103A, August 15, 1915 and left Canada on June 18, 1916 with a strength of 36 officers and 913 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. D. Stewart. Once in England, the Battalion was broken up and absorbed into the 73rd and 75