each with three oak leaves and two acorns
hallmarked and numbered "40006" on the reverse
Kenee enlisted in the 168th Oxford County Battalion on 8th January 1916 at Woodstock
measuring 57 mm (w) x 101 mm (l)
the reverse bearing a handwritten German-language inscription from a sender in the Sudetenland and addressed to a recipient in the United States
Canada, CEF. A 169th Infantry Battalion "109th Regiment" Cap Badge, Type I with Maple Leaf on a Voided Circle consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac each with three oak leavesIn browning copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 38. 5 mm in diameter, both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Toronto, Ontario under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed October 26, 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Wright with a strength of 32 officers and 887 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was absorbed into the 5th Reserve