Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac badge retains nearly 100% original

badge retains nearly 100% original finish

a SERVICE badge for those voluntarily attested for active service beyond Canada and a RESERVE badge for those medically exempt (among other reasons)

The throat additionally bears eight metal staples

marked "SLOVENSKY CERVENY KRUZ / PO PATROCNEJ VZORNEJ SLUZBE" (Slovak Red Cross / After Five Years' Exemplary Service) and numbered "4996" on the reverse

1962 changed the term ""Colonial"" to ""Overseas""

Germany, Imperial. A Mixed Lot of Heer Shoulder Straps for Enlisted Ranks, Canadian Battlefield Retrieval consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac badge retains nearly 100% original(Heer Schulterklappen fr Mannschaften). A lot of five wartime Heer issue shoulder straps for Enlisted ranks, each constructed of field grey wool and bearing red embroidered regimental numbers, three trimmed with white piping, and one retaining a reverse paper label bearing a handwritten inscription of TAKEN AT ST. ELOI APRIL 1916 147 C. E. (corresponding to the Battle of the St. Eloi Craters, in which the 2nd Canadian Division was heavily engaged), of