A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 Newly Listed in blackened non-magnetic metal

in blackened non-magnetic metal

the insignia in silvered bullion wire

a Photograph of  Leo's Brother in his 2nd Battalion Uniform (black and white

measuring 28 mm x 16 mm

In his Medical History of Invalid

A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 Newly Listed in blackened non-magnetic metalCanada; Bronze, unmarked, 18 mm x 24. 5 mm, horizontal pinback, on a 27 mm x 49 mm ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The Farm Service Corps (Farmerettes) was created in response to the labour shortage during the First World War and was an initiative of the Ontario government, similar in purpose to the national Soldiers of the Soil program, but aimed mainly at women. Its farmerettes assisted in all aspects of farm work, replacing the labour of men lost