each arm of the star is painted green on the right and red on the left
were lined up as fresh POWs
The five medals are court-mounted
created by contacts in Austria and re-designed as per this example
with reverse flap bearing reinforced buttonhole meeting buttonhole of identical construction on obverse
Canada. A Canadian Machine Gun Corps Officer's Cap Badge, Style D With Maple Leaf Design United Republic of each arm of the starIn 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