Canada, CEF. A Rare Boyle's Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery Enlisted Man's Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Instituted 6 March 1871 by

Instituted 6 March 1871 by King Johann

but only as a weapon of last resort

Footnote: Ernest Carden Freeth Gillespie was born on 20 May 1871

topped by a Wehrmacht eagle clutching a swastika

Canada, CEF. A Rare Boyle's Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery Enlisted Man's Cap Badge Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic Instituted 6 March 1871 byTwo piece construction, in browning copper, maker marked "GAUNT LONDON" on the reverse, illustrating two crossed Vickers machine guns, the guns surmounted by the royal crown, with a circle below representing a prospectors pan and inscribed "Y. T." (Yukon Territory), the pan housing "gold nuggets" in the lower portion of the pan, a ribbon banner inscribed "CANADA" below, measuring 37. 2 mm (w) x 38. 2 mm (h), all three lugs intact, spotting, very light