Wwi 8Th Mounted Rifle Battalion Cap Badge And Collar Badge Hold An Absolutely Fantastic Example of

An Absolutely Fantastic Example of this Order

Award document for the Order Pour-le-Merite

Many soldiers died in the advance through the Reichwald Forest and the actual crossing of the Rhine and are buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery

Gilded and silvered on red cloth

white embroidery on blue wool)

Wwi 8Th Mounted Rifle Battalion Cap Badge And Collar Badge Hold An Absolutely Fantastic Example ofWWI 8th Mounted Rifle Battalion Cap Badge and Collar Badge Cap Badge (browning copper, unmarked, 40. 2 mm x 42. 3 mm, one lug intact, the other broken off); and Collar Tab (browning copper, unmarked, 27. 5 mm x 29 mm, intact lugs). Light contact, residue in the recessed areas, very fine. Footnote: The Battalion was organized in Ottawa, Ontario, on March 15, 1915. It was broken up to provide reinforcements and was finally disbanded on November 15, 1920.