Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Canada General Service Collar Tab

Canada General Service Collar Tab (in pickled copper

LEES & Co 1916" on the reverse

The obverse ricasso is maker marked “HIC”

Cross In bronze gilt

One of the resulting four regiments (the North Alberta Regiment) was disbanded in the 1936 re-organization of the Militia

Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Canada General Service Collar Tab( ). Constructed of a silver with gilt and enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal aluminum backplate with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of gilded circular wreath, joined together at the bottom by a red enameled banner bearing silvered Russian Cyrcillic letters , situated above a white enameled plaque bearing a numeral 3, surrounding a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a bayonet,