Canada, CEF. A 236th Infantry Battalion Glengarry Badge, c.1916

Item #C5887

$270

"New Brunswick Kilties", Type I with "The New Brunswick Kilties Canada"In pickled brass, measuring 63.3 mm (w) x 67 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine.

 

Footnote: The Battalion was raised in New Brunswick with mobilization headquarters at Fredericton, New Brunswick under the authority of G.O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed November 9, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel P.A. Guthrie with a strength of 27 officers and 1,029 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was absorbed into the 20th Infantry Battalion. It was disbanded on September 15, 1920.