Fittings on the crossguards are nickel plated
Upon demobilization
Each is suspended from its original white and blue striped ribbon with pinback
entitled "Convoy and part of Escort FIRST CANADIAN CONTINGENT OCTOBER 1914" and illustrating a graphic of the thirty-six ships that departed the Gaspe Bay on October 3
original ribbon with hanger inscribed "1914-1915"
Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of St. John, Officer’s Breast Star, C.1880 Hold Fittings on the crossguards are(Brustkreuz des Johanniter Ordens Balley Brandenburg). Instituted in 1852 by King Frederick William III of Prussia in the typical style of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg, the Protestant branch of the Johanniterorden (Johanniter Order). A silver Maltese cross with a lightly pebbled obverse, the reverse with reinforcements to the cross but otherwise plain, with a vertical needle style pinback, a barrel hinge, and a broad wire catch, unmarked, measuring 53