Wwi Machine Gun Corps Cap Badge; Canadian Issue; 4Th Version certificate_of_authenticity and 446 other ranks

and 446 other ranks

combined with a shortness of breath

the regiment was reduced to having field grade officers from other regiments periodically assigned to serve as the 88th’s acting commander

but some plating worn off

Wwi Machine Gun Corps Cap Badge; Canadian Issue; 4Th Version certificate_of_authenticity and 446 other ranksWWI Machine Gun Corps Cap Badge; Canadian Issue; 4th Version Brass, unmarked, 44. 8 mm x 52. 5 mm, intact lugs, light contact, oxidation spot on the obverse, better than very fine. Footnote: When war came in 1914, millionaire Raymond Brutinel, a French army reserve officer who was living in Montreal, in collaboration with a prominent lawyer, Clifford Sifton, hit upon the idea of mounting machine guns on armoured cars, thus providing the double threat