Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1968.056.032ab |
Object Name |
Badge, Military |
Other Name |
Badge, Collar |
Title |
19th Battalion Badge |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Year Range from |
1914 |
Year Range to |
1918 |
Made |
Unknown |
Description |
This military badge has "19" and "CANADA" and a maple leaf motif shape to it. |
Provenance |
Belonged to one of the three McFaul brothers of Owen Sound, Grey County. Two of the brothers were Lieutenants in the First World War. It next belonged to Robert Cecil McFaul of Owen Sound, Ontario. He served in 1918 with the 1st Tank Battalion during the First World War. He survived the war and returned to Owen Sound, where he assisted his father at the McFaul Grocery store, until it was sold in 1934, and then he became an insurance agent in town. After his death in 1965, the item subsequently belonged to his wife, Winnifred McFaul (neé King). |
Collection |
Military, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Metal/Brass |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
McFaul, R. C. McFaul, Wesley Clarence |
Subjects |
World War I (First World War/The Great War) |
Search Terms |
19th Battalion |
Function |
It is likely a collar badge (would be worn with a matching one on the soldier's tunic). The badge (A) is still accompanied with a brass split pin fastener (B). This badge would have been intended to be worn by a Canadian male of the 19th Battalion unit (based in Toronto, but also called the 19th Central Ontario Battalion). Sometimes civilians collected badges from different units. |