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Cloth shoulder patches. Worn 1950 onwards
Where patches are shown in pairs they face inwards. This is because they are shoulder patches and the emblem must face forward when worn on the shoulder. This type of badge set is referred to as "facing pairs" or "opposed". As costs mount the military tries to avoid badge designs that require facing pairs.
Army HQ 1950 (yellow base) facing pair Army HQ 1950 (khaki base) R

Army HQ 1950 (khaki base) L Army HQ 1954
Northern Command 1950 Northern Command post 1954 Northern Command post 1954 
Southern Command 1950 Southern Command 1954 Southern Command post 1954
Eastern Command 1950 Eastern Command 1954 Central Command 1950
<<< Tasmania Command 1950

Tasmania Command 19?? >>>

 
Nth Territory Command 1950 Western Aust. Command 1950
2nd Infantry Division 1950 3rd Infantry Division 1950 (KC) 3rd Infantry Division 1954 (QC)
1st Infantry Brigade Group 1950 7th Infantry Brigade (Queensland) 1950

11th Infantry Brigade

 13th Infantry Brigade
1st Armoured Brigade

 
1st Armoured Brigade

 
2nd Armoured Brigade

 

1st Army Group R Aust Artillery 2nd Army Group R Aust Artillery Each of these Artillery shoulder patches would have had an oppose

Each of these Artillery shoulder patches would have had an oppose

 
4th Army Group R Aust Artillery 5th Army Group R Aust Artillery
BCOF Base (Japan) BCOF Base (Japan) BCOF Base bullion
4 variations of the BCOF Base badge (All KC)

Brit Commonwealth Forces (KC) 1946 Brit Commonwealth Forces (KC) 1950 (locally produced) British Commonwealth Forces (Japan/Korea) (Tudor or King's Crown) (bullion) 1946 (QC post 1953)
BCF, KC, Takasagoya BCF, Bullion, QC BCF, QC, post 1953
British Commonwealth Occupation Newspaper flash Unofficial journalist's patch from the Korean War

Embroidered version of the 3 RAR Presidential Unit Citation with thr RAInf shoulder flash and the Eastern Command formation badge
Some images from Australian Army Badges: Cloth insignia of the Army in Australia 1860-1993 by J K Cossum ISBN 0 949530 14 X
 

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