WW2 challenge coin

[Pylon1357]

Thanks for doing this Bill. Now all I have to do is figure out what box my Irish Regiment of Canada Unit coin, not the one posted here but my numbered coin.

[Michael Dorosh]

Originally Posted by Michael Dorosh

I'd have to dig for the info now, but our association was distributing lucky wooden nickels a decade ago or so, and I believe the tradition was linked to a similar item that was distributed in the trenches by the 10th Battalion, C.E.F. during the First World War. I'm positive I am mis-remembering the details but I do still have my lucky wooden nickel at home. I'll talk to the museum and association fellows and see if I can be less obscure. The nickels had printing on both sides and I believe had the date of, IIRC, the Vimy Ridge battle on one side, and the 10th Bn cap badge on the other - the story behind the nickels is lost to memory. I seem to recall a soldiers' name, rank and service number being on the nickel as well.

This is the image of the coin I was referring to.

[Pylon1357]

That is interesting. I did a quick look up and found did in fact find Walter Allen Loudon, with the Service Number 446717. I do not however see where he was a fatality. I wounder if he was wounded at Vimy?