Canada, CEF. A 122nd Infantry Battalion Cap Badge, c.1916

Type II with Maple Leaf Design. In browning copper, measuring 41.8 mm (w) x 43.8 mm (h), both lugs intact, extremely fine.

Footnote: The Battalion was raised in the Muskoka District of Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Huntsville under the authority of G.O. 151, December 22, 1915. The Battalion sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 2, 1917 aboard the S.S. Olympic, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel D.M. Grant with a strength of 26 officers and 686 other ranks, arriving in Liverpool, England on June 9th. In England, the Battalion was absorbed into the Canadian Forestry Depot. It was disbanded on September 15, 1920.