Canada, CEF. A 90th Infantry Battalion "Winnipeg Rifles" Cap Badge Auction Archive From 1941 as the War

From 1941 as the War effort intensified and more and more men were drafted into the Wehrmacht

The top bears the inscription “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA E PLURIBUS UNUM”

367 were awarded in the First World War

with some material fatigue evident

It is signed in black ink by General Field Marshal

Canada, CEF. A 90th Infantry Battalion "Winnipeg Rifles" Cap Badge Auction Archive From 1941 as the WarIn browning copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 44. 8 mm (w) x 38. 5 mm (h), horizontal pinback, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Winnipeg, Manitoba under the authority of G. O. 151, December 22, 1915 and sailed on June 2, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Monroe, with a strength of 36 officers and 1,087 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was absorbed into the 11th Infantry Battalion. It was