Canada, Cef. A 58Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge, C.1915 Newly Listed Certificate of Promotion to Wachtmeister

Certificate of Promotion to Wachtmeister

maker marked "VANGUARD" and marked "1-V" on the reverse

stained and slightly ripped

and Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo (1778)

Canada, Cef. A 58Th Infantry Battalion Cap Badge, C.1915 Newly Listed Certificate of Promotion to WachtmeisterIn browning copper, measuring 35 mm (w) x 37. 5 mm (h), both lugs intact, spotting, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Central Ontario under the authority of G. O. 103A, August 15, 1915. The mobilization headquarters was at Niagara on the Lake, Ontario (Camp Niagara). The Battalion sailed November 22, 1915 from Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the S. S. Saxonia, with a strength of 40 officers and 1,091 other ranks under the command