A First War 24Th Infantry Battalion "Victoria Rifles" Cap Badge Auction Archive letter from the RACS Records

letter from the RACS Records Department (accompanying his Belgian War Cross 1940 with Palm

0-659391" for Military Merit and for Wounds Received in Action "resulting in his death September 18

with distinctive “C” shaped flat wire catch

336" on the obverse

engraved with the inscription "Presented To Maj

A First War 24Th Infantry Battalion "Victoria Rifles" Cap Badge Auction Archive letter from the RACS RecordsA First War 24th Infantry Battalion "Victoria Rifles" Cap Badge Browning copper, unmarked, 34. 5 mm x 39. 5 mm, intact slider, light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Montreal, Quebec under the authority of G. O. 36, March 15, 1915. The Battalion sailed September 15, 1915 with a strength of 42 officers and 1,082 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Gunn. The Battalion served in