Souvenir of the Assyro-Chaldean Battalion. Gold badge (18 K) chased with an Assyrian sphinx, engraved on the back "le 8e bataillon du levant au général de Bigault de Granrut commandant supérieur des troupes du levant". Dimensions: 31 x 41 mm - Net weight: 12 g Historical background: General de Bigault de Granrut led the Levant troops around 1929, when a young commander was settling in Lebanon under his direction: Charles de Gaulle. The 8th Levant Battalion was made up almost entirely of Assyro-Chaldean soldiers serving the French.