Cap Badge - 215th (2nd Overseas Battalion of the 38th Regiment Dufferin Rifles) Battalion, CEF The 215th Battalion (2nd Overseas Battalion of 38th Regiment Dufferin Rifles), CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Brantford, Ontario, the unit began recruiting in early 1916 in the counties of Brant, Norfolk, and Haldimand. After sailing to England in April 1917, the battalion was absorbed into the 2nd Reserve Battalion on May 7, 1917. The 38th Regiment (Dufferin Rifles of Canada) was a Canadian Militia infantry regiment in Brantford, Ontario which was organized in 1866. It was a rural Canadian Militia infantry regiment from Brant County in southwestern Ontario. In 1874, they took the name of their honourary colonel, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin (1826-1902), who served as Governor General of Canada between 1872 and 1878.