Canada, CEF. A 141st Infantry Battalion "Border Battalion" Cap Badge Auction including a Deutscher Volksgenossen Bund

including a Deutscher Volksgenossen Bund Westmark (Lothringen/Lorraine) badge

measuring 110 mm (w) x 109 mm (l)

Trevaille-Williams was employed as a mining engineer

reverse illustrating a Christian cross with the inscription "BENEMERENTI" across it

with a gold coloured anchor entwined with a gold bullion rope on a gold framed disc backed with black felt

Canada, CEF. A 141st Infantry Battalion "Border Battalion" Cap Badge Auction including a Deutscher Volksgenossen BundIn pickled brass, voided, unmarked, measuring 41 mm (w) x 44. 2 mm (h), both lugs intact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in the Rainy River district of Ontario, with mobilization headquarters at Fort Frances under the authority of G. O. 151, December 22, 1915. The Battalion sailed April 29, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel D. C. McKenzie with a strength of 17 officers and 466 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was