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14 июня 2012 21:46 14 июня 2012 21:52 grodnoguy2 написал: [q] I have an Attestation Paper where he was sworn into the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces on March 15, 1916. The place was Fort Francis which is in the Rainy River district that is shown on the first badge. He died in Vancouver in 1970 at age 79. I met him in 1966, he was still writing to his friend in Zhichin.[/q]
Mike, Great! I noticed that the first badge closely matches your photo but since I am not familiar with Canadian army structure I wasn’t sure whether there were other units with similar looking insignia. The 141st CEF infantry battalion indeed was stationed at Fort Frances so looks like you got a perfect match. It was later absorbed by 18th reserve battalion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...se%29,_CEFAs an additional proof (assuming I understood the logic correctly) the regimental number from his attestation paper (I found it) falls into the numbers range assigned to the above mentioned 141st battalion according to this table: http://www.cefresearch.com/mat...ummary.htmI checked several other numbers from this range and some papers even have “141st” stamped on top. His paper also has a stamp but it’s very hard to distinguish. Best wishes! Vladimir P.S. Just FYI. I am going to move this discussion later to a separate thread in the same "Определение формы, наград, оружия" section. | 
