brown and yellow embroidery
which was composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying French fighter aircraft
maker marked "SPINK & SON LTD" on the inside lid
he proceeded to England and was posted to "J" Wing of the Canadian Corps Camp (CCC) at Witley
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Canada. A British War Medal, Private Sweeney, 2Nd Battalion Cmr, Wounded At Passchendaele certificate_of_authenticity brown and yellow embroidery(706606 PTE. W. H. SWEENEY. 2 C. M. R.). Naming is officially impressed. Edge nicks, contact marks, replacement ribbon, very fine. Footnote: William Henry Sweeney was born on September 8, 1897 in Warrington, England, the son of Henry Sweeney and Clara Sweeney, later of Esquimalt, British Columbia. He was a resident of Victoria (Esquimalt), British Columbia when he signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (706606) with the 103rd Infantry Battalion, on