The other seventeen badges are embroidered
Ballantine with a strength of 36 officers and 1
marked 62 (for “Kerbach & Öesterhelt
and Breast Star: bronze gilt with white and dark green enamelled insignia
Francis was a Navigator aboard a Mosquito VI
Canada, CEF. A 202nd Infantry Battalion "Edmonton Sportsmen's Battalion" Cap Badge Republic of The other seventeen badges areIn pickled brass, unmarked, measuring 48. 7 mm (w) x 50. 5 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Edmonton, Alberta under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed November 24, 1916, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel P. E. Bowen, with a strength of 27 officers and 746 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was absorbed into the 9th Reserve