subtitled "An Air Ministry account of the Great Days from 8th August - 31st October 1940
after having served four years overseas
printed in black ink on a paper stock
with a gun shot wound to his left shoulder
A First War 202Nd Canadian Infantry Battalion Collar Tab Pair certificate_of_authenticity subtitled "An Air Ministry account"Edmonton Sportsmen's Battalion": Pickled copper, unmarked, 29 mm x 29. 5 mm each, intact lugs and pins, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised and mobilized in Edmonton, Alberta under the authority of G. O. 69, July 15, 1916. The Battalion sailed November 24, 1916, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel P. E. Bowen, with a strength of 27 officers and 746 other ranks. In England, the Battalion was absorbed into