Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design GTRexclude black and white photo of

black and white photo of Macko on the front panel

Between April and early September he took part in battles in northern Finland

A grouping of two silver bravery medals

but I know of what I am talking when I say that of all the soldiers I have met and observed in the army - for real

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Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design GTRexclude black and white photo ofIn copper gilt, voided, measuring 53. 5 mm (w) x 45 mm (h), both lugs intact, traces of gilt remains, near extremely fine. Footnote: When war came in 1914, millionaire Raymond Brutinel, a French army reserve officer who was living in Montreal, in collaboration with a prominent lawyer, Clifford Sifton, hit upon the idea of mounting machine guns on armoured cars, thus providing the double threat of firepower and mobiity. Sifton took the idea to the