Wwi 178Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Cef Newly Listed The scabbard tip is decorated

The scabbard tip is decorated with longitudinal grooves

faithful Service Medal)

Army Long Service Decoration –in gilded iron

meaning the only way they made it back home was on the arms of officers and "borrowed" in field packs and ruck-sacks

rebuilding trenches

Wwi 178Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Cef Newly Listed The scabbard tip is decoratedWWI 178th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge CEF Version I Pickled copper, unmarked, 32. 8 mm x 44. 7 mm, intact lugs and pin, one lug bent forward, scattered gilt wear, better than very fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Quebec and Eastern Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Victoriaville, Quebec under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed March 4, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel L. de la B. Girouard