Canada. A British War Medal, Private Sweeney, 2Nd Battalion Cmr, Wounded At Passchendaele Hold 73 mm x 79

73 mm x 79

cellion style embroidered tab

135 died of disease

With khaki threads matching the colour of the 101st Airborne Division still remaining on patch

There is also an admission that the Navy had got into bad habits during the war

Canada. A British War Medal, Private Sweeney, 2Nd Battalion Cmr, Wounded At Passchendaele Hold 73 mm x 79(706606 PTE. W. H. SWEENEY. 2 C. M. R.). Naming is officially impressed. Edge nicks, contact marks, replacement ribbon, very fine. Footnote: William Henry Sweeney was born on September 8, 1897 in Warrington, England, the son of Henry Sweeney and Clara Sweeney, later of Esquimalt, British Columbia. He was a resident of Victoria (Esquimalt), British Columbia when he signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (706606) with the 103rd Infantry Battalion, on