Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design GTRexclude This rare badge/award was produced

This rare badge/award was produced right after the War circa 1946-48 for a short period of time

Department of National Defence

the badge consisting of a Leopold Cross - a cross pattee constructed of gold

The date is unclear

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

Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design GTRexclude This rare badge/award was producedIn 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