A private wartime photograph depicting an Imperial Navy Officer wearing a greatcoat and clutching an elaborate dress sword
München) and marked “Ges
usually on any of the legs and toes
Four sets of dual vertically-arranged threaded loops are set into the upper left pocket for the accommodation of decorations with vertical pinbacks
bronze FERT sword clasp on an original ribbon
Canada, CEF. A 48th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge visually-hidden A private wartime photograph depictingIn pickled brass, unmarked, measuring 35. 3 mm (w) x 37. 7 mm (h), both lugs and pin intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in British Columbia under the authority of G. O. 86, July 1, 1915, with the mobilization headquarters at Victoria. The Battalion sailed July 1, 1915 aboard the R. M. S. Grampian, with a strength of 38 officers and 1,020 other ranks, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. J. H.