Canada, CEF. An 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Auction Organization of the Executive on

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The left boot once had the same assembly

crown and drop shadow in the RFC lettering in brown ink

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Canada, CEF. An 81st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Auction Organization of the Executive onIn 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.