Canada, CEF. A 48th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Hold and without any obvious signs

and without any obvious signs of having been loosened

at Dispersal Station I

opening to reveal handwritten entries and membership due stamps

numbered “9468”

Canada, CEF. A 48th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Hold and without any obvious signsIn pickled copper, unmarked, measuring 35. 3 mm (w) x 40. 7 mm (h), both lugs intact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in British Columbia under the authority of G. O. 86, July 1, 1915, with the mobilization headquarters at Victoria. The Battalion sailed July 1, 1915 aboard the R. M. S. Grampian, with a strength of 38 officers and 1,020 other ranks, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. J. H. Holmes, arriving in England on July