A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 certificate_of_authenticity "at times it gets larger

"at times it gets larger and is painful especially on bending over"

1915 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel W

and in the second half - after being promoted Feldwebel – participated at the battle of Rimini

Fabricated from light brown cotton

Original ribbons on two

A First War Canadian Farm Service Corps Badge 1917 certificate_of_authenticity "at times it gets largerCanada; Bronze, unmarked, 18 mm x 24. 5 mm, horizontal pinback, on a 27 mm x 49 mm ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The Farm Service Corps (Farmerettes) was created in response to the labour shortage during the First World War and was an initiative of the Ontario government, similar in purpose to the national Soldiers of the Soil program, but aimed mainly at women. Its farmerettes assisted in all aspects of farm work, replacing the labour of men lost