Spain, Fascist State. A Spanish Made War Merit Cross, Ii Class With Swords consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A First War 42nd Battalion

A First War 42nd Battalion "Royal Highlanders of Canada" Badge - Browning copper

Quebec on April 23

a shooting range

the Battalion was absorbed into the 17th and 26th Reserve Battalions and disbanded on September 15

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve was aboard HMCS Spikenard when she sank

Spain, Fascist State. A Spanish Made War Merit Cross, Ii Class With Swords consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac A First War 42nd Battalion(Kriegsverdienstkreuz II. Klasse mit Schwertern eines spanischen Freiwilligen der Blauen Division). Constructed of bronze, on loop for suspension from ribbon with a classic clasp and horizontal pinback, consisting of a Maltese Cross with crossed swords piercing the centrepiece, the obverse with pebbled arms and bearing a central wreathed mobile swastika, the reverse bearing a central wreathed date of 1939, unmarked, measuring 46. 9 mm (w) x 48. 2 mm