A Second War Period Canadian Operation Muskox Sleeve Patch GTRexclude thanks to the superior fabrics

thanks to the superior fabrics employed

he saw an appointment to Lance Sergeant on January 1st

Medal to Commemorate 13 March 1938

on leather watch fob

Oxfordshire

A Second War Period Canadian Operation Muskox Sleeve Patch GTRexclude thanks to the superior fabricsLight blue, white and black embroidery, 56 mm x 61 mm, uniform worn, extremely fine. Footnote: Operation Muskox was the largest military exercise ever held in the Canadian Arctic and the fourth of four military expeditions held in the region in the 1940s. The previous three, Eskimo, Polar Bear and Lemming, had been on a far smaller scale in terms of personnel, equipment, and the sheer distance traveled. The origin of Muskox, and of Arctic exercises