Canada. A 168Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge, C.1915 Auction Leonard Joseph Birchall died on

Leonard Joseph Birchall died on September 10

mounted to a five-sided magnetic metal suspension with pinback

the insignia measuring 205 mm x 215 mm

he was taken on strength of the 6th Reserve Battalion on posting from the Eastern Ontario Regimental Depot on April 11

1943 during the evacuation of the Kuban bridgehead

Canada. A 168Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge, C.1915 Auction Leonard Joseph Birchall died onIn pickled copper, measuring 36. 7 mm (w) x 38 mm (h), both lugs intact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Oxford County, Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Woodstock under the authority of G. O. 151, December 2, 1915. The Battalion sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 1, 1916 aboard the S. S. Lapland, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. K. McMullen with a strength of 26 officers and 688 other ranks, arriving