A Pre-First World War 55Th Prussian Regiment Dress Shoulder Board Archive Pope Pius IX was forced

Pope Pius IX was forced to leave Rome

s coronation procession in 1902

young French-speaking Quebecois flocked in great numbers to volunteer for service to the Crown within Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal (and a few other "bilingual" regiments like it)

Taillon was recorded as killed in action September 14th 1944 in France

ring is marked (indecipherable)

A Pre-First World War 55Th Prussian Regiment Dress Shoulder Board Archive Pope Pius IX was forcedUpper in steel blue wool overlying a white cotton base, wrapped around a thin wooden frame, red embroidered "55" in the centre, stitched in place on the reverse via black threading, with a strip of navy blue wool glued in place on the reverse, 49. 5 mm x 131. 5 mm, mothing evident, very fine. (C: 80)