Germany, Heer. An Infantry EM/NCO’s Visor Cap consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The 199th Infantry Battalion

Footnote: The 199th Infantry Battalion "Irish Canadian Rangers / Duchess of Connaught's Own" Infantry Battalion was founded by the CEF to improve their recruitment success by having an all-Irish regiment

illustrating a seated cloaked woman comforting a boy holding a downward-pointing sword in his hands against his chest

His wounding was mentioned in the Supplement to the London Gazette 21747 of Tuesday

1943 by the Fujikura Aircraft Industry Company Limited (founded in 1939)

his last known whereabouts were in Budapest during Christmas 1944

Germany, Heer. An Infantry EM/NCO’s Visor Cap consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Footnote: The 199th Infantry Battalion(Heer Schirmmtze fr Mannschaften der Infanterie). A very well preserved Heer Flak Artillery EM NCOs visor cap, constructed of field grey wool with a pronounced whipcord weave. Both the top and bottom edges of the cap band are trimmed with white wool piping, while an additional length of identical piping surrounds the outer edge of the crown. Pinned onto the peak is an aluminum insignia consisting of a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a wreathed mobile