France, Colonial Somaliland. An Ordre Du Nichan El Anouar, Commander, C.1930 certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The Battalion was raised

Footnote: The Battalion was raised in Quebec and mobilized in St

(a village just to the east of the road from Arras to Lens) and is commemorated on page 464 of the First World War Book of Remembrance

It is accompanied by its original packet of issue

surrounded by the inscription "INTERNATIONALE JAGDAUSSTELLUNG BERLIN 1937"

France, Colonial Somaliland. An Ordre Du Nichan El Anouar, Commander, C.1930 certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The Battalion was raisedIn silver with red and blue enamels, gilt stars in each quadrant, swivel crown, measuring 54 mm (w) x 85 mm (h inclusive of crown and horizontally pierced ball suspension with crescent moon), on full length original ribbon, extremely fine. Footnote: The Order of Nichan El Anouar (Arabic: Order of the Light) was established in 1887, as a colonial order of merit of the Tajurah sultanate in French Somaliland (modern day Djibouti). It was instituted in