Original Items: Only One Set Available. This is a fantastic rare World War Two 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion Insignia Set. Also, included with this set, exactly as we got it from the estate of a deceased collector are a few pieces belonging to a US Navy Parachute Rigger 1st Class material, perhaps they were friends in training school? The set consisting of the following items:
– 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion uniform shoulder flash.
– Canadian Parachute Corps Cap Badge
– 2 x Canadian Airborne Parachute Wing embroidered patches
– “P.P.C.L.I.” Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry – Shoulder Flash with black backing.
– CANADA lapel pins.
– 8 x 10 original photo of a Canadian Paratrooper.
USN Items are as follows:
– Original PARACHUTE MATERIAL SCHOOL training certificate from the United States Naval Air Station in San Diego, California naming Jerry W. Gassaway, AMM3/c, USN having competed the course of study in Parachute Material Rigging on the 4th of June 1943.
– US Navy Parachute Rigger 1st Class rank chevron patch.
– Post WWII UN Blood Chit on silk.