Badge in yellow and white Gold
a 12 mm wide blackened leather border along the open end
the obverse bearing a raised German national eagle overlaid by a shield defaced by a mobile swastika
He was a mathematician
and the text is greatly enhanced by many lively first-hand quotations from letters
Canada, CEF. A 18th Infantry Battalion "Western Ontario Regiment" Cap Badge, Type I Republic of Badge in yellow and whiteIn browning copper, unmarked, measuring 34 mm (w) x 39. 2 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in London, Ontario under the authority of G. O. 36, March 15, 1915. The Battalion sailed April 18, 1915 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel E. S. Wigle, with a strength of 36 officers and 1,081 other ranks. The Battalion served in France and Belgium with the 4th Infantry Brigade,