A First War 8Th Infantry Battalion "The Black Devils/90Th Winnipeg Rifles" Cap Badge Newly Listed unusual design and very scarce

unusual design and very scarce

“Securitata” Order RSR 1st Class in Gold & Diamonds - center appliqué enameled

in silvered bronze and gilt

7 mm x 13 mm

along with the 101st Airborne Division perfected new tactics and doctrine for helicopter-borne assaults over the next five years in Vietnam

A First War 8Th Infantry Battalion "The Black Devils/90Th Winnipeg Rifles" Cap Badge Newly Listed unusual design and very scarceCanada; Pickled copper, unmarked, 46 mm (w) x 39 mm (h), both lugs intact, extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Brandon and Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Port Arthur and Kenora, Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Camp Valcartier, Quebec under the authority of P. C. O. 2067, August 6, 1914. The Battalion sailed October 3, 1914 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel L. J. Lipsett with a strength of 45 officers and 1,085 other ranks.