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122A - 122nd Battalion (Muskoka) Cap Badge
Blunt Leaf type with Framed Ribbons. (Figure 3 on page 96 of "Symbols of Service" Book Refers).
2 lugs to the reverse.
The 122nd Canadian Infantry Battalion was recruited in the Muskoka region of Ontario with mobilization headquarters at Huntsville in Northern Ontario under General Order 151 of December 22nd 1915 by the 23rd Northern Pioneers this regiment previously having provided 152 volunteers to the 1st Battalion on its formation at Camp Valcartier in August 1914, the regiment later raised the 162nd Battalion. The 122nd Battalion embarked for England June 2nd 1917 under command of Lieutenant-Colonel D.McK. Grant (35th Simcoe Foresters), with a strength of 26 officers and 686 other ranks. After its arrival in England due to its high preponderance of skilled northern woodsmen the 122nd Battalion was absorbed into the Canadian Forestry Corps. Being fully depleted of all ranks the 122nd Battalion was disbanded effective September 1st 1917 under General Order 82 of June 1st 1918.
The regimental numbers block for the 122nd Canadian Infantry Battalion was 763001 - 766000. In the files pertaining to badges in the C.E.F. files in the Canadian Archives is a request to approve drawings for battalion pattern cap and collar badges this being made January 13th 1916 by the C.O. Lieutenant-Colonel D.M. Grant to H.Q. 2nd Divisional Headquarters. The drawing of the design supplied, this the maple leaf pattern ’122’ Overseas Canada’ pattern, was approved January 17th 1916. Three distinct varieties of the maple leaf pattern were produced. Samples matching the approved drawings were submitted to 2nd Divisional Headquarters (Military District No.2, located at the Exhibition Grounds, Toronto) May 3rd 1916. A letter dated November 21st 1916 from the D.A.A. & Q.M.G. M.D. No.2 to the A.A.G. M.D. No.1 at London, Ontario, reads in part “,’this unit has put forward an application for a new design for cap and collar badges.“ A letter of the same date to Lieutenant-Colonel D.M. Grant reads in part, “These should be forwarded to the A.A.G., M.D. No.1, as the Administration of your Unit is now being carried out in that district.”
