the reverse with a barrel hinge and banjo-style horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch
in a scroll below the busts ‘VISITED CANADA 1901’
maker marked on loop with initials S-W for Sy-Wagner
functional exterior metal hinge covered by a perfectly preserved piece of black leatherette
and Shoulder Flash (white embroidered lettering on a maroon base
Canada, CEF. A 35th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge United Republic of the reverse with a barrelIn browning copper, unmarked, measuring 51 mm (w) x 49. 5 mm (h), intact slider, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Toronto, Ontario under the authority of G. O. 86, July 1, 1915. The Battalion sailed October 16, 1915 aboard the S. S. Metagawa, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel F. C. McCordick with a strength of 41 officers and 1,105 other ranks, arriving in England on the 25th. In