1933 Pattern Raf Straight Zip Flying Gloves (Gauntlet-Style) Auction WWI 77th Infantry Battalion "Ottawa

WWI 77th Infantry Battalion "Ottawa Battalion" Cap Badge - Pickled brass

with separately applied wheat stock at centre

Commander's Neck Cross

Bell was with the Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment) 1st Battalion in the French theatre when he was wounded on July 28

and 7 months later he was made an Unterscharfuhrer

1933 Pattern Raf Straight Zip Flying Gloves (Gauntlet-Style) Auction WWI 77th Infantry Battalion "Ottawa1933 Pattern RAF Straight Zip Flying Gloves (Gauntlet Style); Supple reddish brown leather exterior, zig zag stitching at the wrist with an underlying elastic sewn on the inside at the wrist for a snug fit, in size 8, brass zipper running from the wrist to the end of the glove at the mid forearm, each brass zipper tab marked "LIGHTNING", leather pull tabs attached to each brass zipper tab, each leather tab marked "8 2", inside lined in tan leather