Canada, CEF. An Officer's Tunic & Coat, No.1 Canadian General Hospital Republic of southwest Poland) on March 26

southwest Poland) on March 26

1943 and sent to the father of Unteroffizier (NCO) and Observer Hannes Humpe

circumscribed “Patriae ag Humanitati” (Latin - Country and Humanity)

The reverse ricasso bears a maker’s mark of “SEAM” for Sociedad Española de Armas y Munición (Spanish Weapons and Ammunition Company) with dates “1936/8”

the reverse retaining a fully-intact press label bearing a typewritten inscription describing the scene (with Festetics’ name mis-spelled as “Festetits”)

Canada, CEF. An Officer's Tunic & Coat, No.1 Canadian General Hospital Republic of southwest Poland) on March 26Acquired together from an estate, both named on interior pocket to Captain William Berkeley Stark who was a physician with the Royal Canadian Medical Corps throughout the war. Born in Toronto, Stark would join the CEF in February 1916 having previously served with the R. C. M. C. Stark would go on to serve in both England and France with the Ontario Military Hospital, Orpington, C. A. M. C. Depot Shornecliffe, and most notably, No. 1 Canadian General