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War related Civilian Badges Page 5

Vive La France (14 July)	WW1 Allies badge

Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)	YMCA demobilisation badge


USA Sth West Pacific Area Civilian worker	2 different Red Cross badges

Serviceman's Parents & Wives Assoc (WW2)	Defence Production Stores Visitor


Assorted Returned Soldiers Association badges Photo by R Butler
		Unofficial Volunteers badge (29th Bn AIF?)
Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen & Women	WW1 cross given to soldiers who volunteered, made of copper and enamel, measures 33 mm x 25 mm, made to be worn around the neck, reads "VOLUNTEERED FOR HOME AND EMPIRE". Reverse is impressed "A.R.E. NOBLE ". Pte Archibald Richard Noble, service number 4865, is listed as being with the 29th Battalion during WW1; the 29th was a Victorian Battalion. I’ve never been able to find out who issued these crosses


2nd 1st Machine Gun Battalion Association	Brewarrina RSL

Women's Auxiliary of the Returned Sailors Soldiers & Airmens Imperial League of Australia (RSL)	Australian Comforts Fund, Ballarat Victoria; Trench Shop 1918

Associated with the service of Peace Officer George Henry Doxey, who was born in Derbyshire, England, in October 1904. Doxey emigrated to South Australia in 1923 as part of the 'Barwell Boys Scheme' for young apprentices.

Owing to poor eyesight, he was rejected for active service in the Second World War, and instead became a Peace Officer, providing night time security at the Islington Railway Workshops (SA) from about 1942 until the end of the war. George Doxey died in Adelaide in May 1969.

Originally established in 1935, the Peace Officer Guard organization was set up as a section of the Commonwealth Investigation Branch (CIB), the first national (rather than State) police organisation.

The Peace Officers provided personnel for the guarding of Commonwealth establishments, and were the first uniformed element of national law enforcement. In 1960, they combined with the plain clothed element, the Commonwealth Investigation Service, (CIS) to form the new Commonwealth Police, which in 1979 became the Australian Federal Police (AFP).