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War related civilian badges Page 2 |
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Widows Guild of Australia. The Kookaburra Badge
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If you can provide a colour photo of this badge please email me | |||||
| Australian Comforts Fund, Ballarat. |  |
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| Volunteered
for Active Service but required for service in Australia Badge.
Called the "Home Service" badge. WW1 Shown larger than actual. |
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Front and back images supplied by Noel Porter>> |
Volunteer (Medically unfit) WW1. Granted to persons of military age who had volunteered for active service outside Australia, but had been certified by a medical officer as medically unfit for such service.
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WW1 New Zealand Mothers Of Empire Soldiers Sailors sterling silver lapel badge with broach fitting, measures 27mm high. |
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Relatives Badge WW2
Issued to wife and or mother or nearest female relative of members of AIF and RAAF including members of AANS on active service abroad. Each star represents 1 family member on service |
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Relatives Badge WW2
Issued to wife and or mother or nearest female relative of members of RAN on active service. Each star represents 1 family member on service
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AIF Female Relatives Badge WW1 Granted to wife and or mother or nearest female relative of soldiers, nurses & masseuses who left Australia for active service abroad. (Bars added for more than 1 relative (1 for husband and/or one per son/daughter).
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Female Relatives Badge WW1 for Royal Australian Navy. | |||
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This is a particularly interesting
combination of 2 badges. It is a WW1 Female Relatives Badge indicating 3
relatives on Active Service (AIF) with the addition of the bar from a
WW2 Female Relatives Badge indicating 4 relatives on Active Service.
Mr Bob Nixon who sent the image suggests "My suspicion is that this was the original badge with three bars for WW1 relatives, with the addition of four stars for the four sons my grandmother saw off to WW2, including my father."
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Mothers
and Widows Badge WW2
To be issued to the mothers and or widows of members of Navy, Army and Air Force killed in action or died of wounds or from other causes while on active service. (Additional stars added for more than one child) |
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Mothers
and Widows Badge WW1
To be issued to the mothers and or widows of members of RAN, AN&MEF and AIF killed in action or died of wounds or from other causes while on active service. (Additional stars added for more than one child)
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ARP stands for AIR RAID PATROL |
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by Steve Risby |
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Sailors & Soldiers Fathers' Association badges
photo by Tony McCabe |
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If you can provide a colour photo of this badge please email me | Sailors and Soldiers Womenfolk Association badge for wives , mothers and sisters of members of all services in both world wars. | ||||
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If you can provide a colour photo of this badge please email me | United Volunteers Association. Worn by association members. Those eligible are demobilised AIF and volunteers rejected for active service, members of volunteer defence forces and persons engaged in essential services who are debarred from enlisting for active service and returned soldiers not eligible for membership of RSSILA | ||||
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| Victoria League 1940 |
On War Service badge (WW1) |
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Commonwealth of Australia Munitions Establishment worker's ID badge version 1 |
Commonwealth of Australia Munitions Establishment worker's ID badge version 2 |
When reading this page
please remember that the captions were written in 1942 for a supplement
to the "ARGUS" that was published on Saturday April 11, 1942.
So the words 'last war' mean WW1 and the words 'this war' mean WW2.
These reproductions are not very good. Maybe you can help. It is probable that you know someone that has one of these badges , probably stuck away in a back cupboard somewhere. If so why not share your treasure with the world by sending me a colour photo of it. I will, of course, pay you the courtesy of naming you as the donor of the photo. |
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