Watton and Assistant Officer Commanding
flanked by standard flags and above a stylized wreath featuring a central monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm II
with a manufacture date of “1942”
Northland on October 28th
Not even three weeks later
Canada, CEF. A Set of Borden’s Motor Machine Gun Battery Collar Insignia Badges Hold Watton and Assistant Officer CommandingIn bronze, unmarked, consisting of a tank, with a maple leaf above a banner that reads CANADA, reverse dual lugs, 20. 4 mm (h) x 40 mm (w), extremely fine. Footnote: The Borden's Armoured Battery was named after the Prime Minister Robert Borden; however, the name was changed during the spring of 1915 to Borden's Motor Machine Gun Battery. The unit was one of the early armoured car units formed by Canada in 1914, named after the Prime Minister, Sir