Jim,
The badge you've pictured (COTC 11) is one of those where there was a good deal of lag time before official sanction through a GO. The badge was in use during WWI, but not authourized until 1926. Your example, with the LEES mark & the 1915 date, would be one of the first (or perhaps the first) issue of this pattern. It's a good one!
COTC 11a is a bit of a mystery. It is generally attributed to the initial two PPCLI reinforcing companies recruited from McGill in 1915. If so, 11a is really more of a CEF badge than a COTC badge.
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