Canada, CEF. A 221st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Archive exhibiting marks common to extraction

exhibiting marks common to extraction from the scabbard along with moderate surface wear on the blade and measuring 262 mm in length

measuring 66 mm (w) x 65 mm (h)

Footnote: The outbreak of America's involvement in the First World War caused a sharp increase in the demand for army officers

worn on original ribbon with slot brooch and lock catch

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu

Canada, CEF. A 221st Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Archive exhibiting marks common to extractionIn pickled copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 41 mm (w) x 45. 8 mm (h), both lugs are broken off and are lost to time, light contact and surface wear, better than very fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Manitoba with mobilization headquarters at Winnipeg under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed April 18, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel M. McMeans with a strength of 23 officers and 596 other ranks. In