Canada, Cef. A 99Th Infantry Battalion "Essex Battalion" Cap Badge, C.1915 Archive silvered and gilt metal with

silvered and gilt metal with red

with a white enameled border and small die stamped silver rays

CORPS) Naming is engraved in large block capitals

consisting of the right hand side Totenkopf symbol

sticker residue on their reverses

Canada, Cef. A 99Th Infantry Battalion "Essex Battalion" Cap Badge, C.1915 Archive silvered and gilt metal withIn pickled copper, measuring 40. 5 mm (w) x 48 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Essex County, Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Windsor under the authority of G. O. 151, December 22, 1915. The Battalion sailed May 31, 1916 aboard the S. S. Olympic, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel T. B. Welch with a strength of 36 officers and 825 other ranks, arriving in Liverpool,