artist signed "Fitzmaurice 017" to the right of the officer's shoes
RFA Battalion Group Photograph taken in front of a Building in Vicenza
the other marked with the same map
Johnston carried several important despatches under heavy shell fire
some fraying at bottom edges and small ink stain inside
Canada, CEF. A 56th Infantry Battalion "Calgary Battalion" Cap Badge GTRexclude artist signed "Fitzmaurice 017" toIn pickled copper, unmarked, measuring 35. 8 mm (w) x 38. 5 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Calgary, Alberta under the authority of G. O. 86, July 1, 1915. The Battalion embarked Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 23, 1916 aboard the S. S. Baltic, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W. C. G. Armstrong with a strength of 40 officers and 1,070 other ranks, arriving in