Grand Officer: awarded to full colonels and above
Accompanied by three purple ribbon bars with miniature of the award affixed
The obverse of the blade features an acid-etched inscription of “BLUT UND EHRE
S RALEIGH pin on ribbon (bronze
the obverse bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire “droop tail” Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika
Canada, CEF. A 32nd Infantry Battalion "Manitoba and Saskatchewan Regiment" Cap Badge Archive Grand Officer: awarded to fullIn browning copper, voided, unmarked, measuring 41. 7 mm (w) x 51. 3 mm (h), both lugs intact, very light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Manitoba and Saskatchewan with mobilization headquarters at Winnipeg, Manitoba under the authority of G. O. 36, March 15, 1915. The Battalion sailed February 23, 1915 with a strength of 35 officers and 962 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant Colonel H. J. Cowan. In