A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 GTRexclude While with the Algonquin Regiment

While with the Algonquin Regiment

910 for export

rings on either side of its base for attachment to the grill of an automobile

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A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 GTRexclude While with the Algonquin RegimentCanada; 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