Canada, CEF. A 48th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic maker marked "B" and number

maker marked "B" and number stamped "14199" on the reverse

and Group of Nineteen Sailors (Seesoldaten) (printed in black ink on a white card stock

the Merit Cross for War Aid

in lovely shape

Humpe and the rest of his crew had been tasked with attacking Russian supply lines on the railway track between Belgorod and Kursk

Canada, CEF. A 48th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic maker marked "B" and numberIn pickled copper, unmarked, measuring 35. 3 mm (w) x 40. 7 mm (h), both lugs intact, 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. Holmes, arriving in England on July