Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design Newly Listed WWII 1st Special Service Force

WWII 1st Special Service Force Collar Badge - Brass

South African Issue

Footnote: The badge was established in 1945

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typical of S & L pre 1945 manufactured KC

Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design Newly Listed WWII 1st Special Service ForceIn copper gilt, voided, measuring 53. 5 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), both lugs intact, traces of gilt remains, near extremely fine. Footnote: When war came in 1914, millionaire Raymond Brutinel, a French army reserve officer who was living in Montreal, in collaboration with a prominent lawyer, Clifford Sifton, hit upon the idea of mounting machine guns on armoured cars, thus providing the double threat of firepower and mobiity. Sifton took the idea to the