Canada, CEF. A 29th Infantry Battalion "Tobin's Tigers"/"Vancouver Regiment" Cap Badge visually-hidden featuring a War Merit Cross

featuring a War Merit Cross with Swords and an Eastern Front Medal

51 mm in diameter without the crown

who died two years earlier

marked “RZM 36/40 SS” ( Waffen-SS Koppelschloss für Mannschaften/Unterführer) on reverse

raised platform with a recessed medal bed in black felt

Canada, CEF. A 29th Infantry Battalion "Tobin's Tigers"/"Vancouver Regiment" Cap Badge visually-hidden featuring a War Merit CrossIn browning copper, unmarked, measuring 37. 5 mm (w) x 38. 3 mm (h), both lugs and pin intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The 29th Infantry Battalion was raised and mobilized in Vancouver, British Columbia under the authority of G. O. 36, March 15, 1915. The Battalion sailed May 20, 1915 with a strength of 37 officers and 1,090 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant Colonel H. S. Tobin. The Battalion served in France and