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Order of the Iron Crown

each constructed of golden-yellow wool with buckram cores and bearing machine-embroidered silver aluminum wire insignia

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Canada, CEF. A 226th Infantry “Men of the North” Cap Badge Archive Wittich became General Command ofIn blackened pickled copper, unmarked, measuring 36. 5 mm (w) x 44. 5 mm (h), both lugs are intact but appear to be re solder replacements, better than very fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Manitoba with mobilization headquarters at Dauphin, Manitoba under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed December 15, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel R. A. G. Gillespie with a strength of 32 officers and 1,035 other