Wwi Machine Gun Corps Cap Badge; Canadian Issue; 4Th Version certificate_of_authenticity on period commander ribbon

on period commander ribbon

dated August 30

and 446 other ranks

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

Wwi Machine Gun Corps Cap Badge; Canadian Issue; 4Th Version certificate_of_authenticity on period commander ribbonWWI 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