Canada, CEF. A 255th Infantry Battalion "Queen's Own Rifles" Cap Badge Hold Also emanating from each shoulder

Also emanating from each shoulder is a swallow’s nest

worn on full length purple civil division neck ribbon with simple hook and eye clasp

Operation Flash was a brief Croatian Army (HV) offensive conducted against the forces of the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) from May 1-3

the reverse featuring an off-centre crimped disc formerly accommodating a horizontal pinback

Canada, CEF. A 255th Infantry Battalion "Queen's Own Rifles" Cap Badge Hold Also emanating from each shoulderIn pickled brass, unmarked, measuring 42. 5 mm (w) x 50. 8 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Central Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Toronto under the authority of G. O. 48, May 1, 1917. The Battalion sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the S. S. Olympic, on June 2, 1917 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel G. C. Royce with a strength of 13 officers and 284 other