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| Category: Badges |
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43rd
Battalion The Hindmarsh Regiment
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44th
Battalion West Australia Rifles
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Enameled and plain brass
versions were made. Enameled were of Officers.
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The centerpiece of this badge is a
'black-boy", a native plant that is part tree part grass. It grows on a
thick stem and the new leaf material resembles grass. It grows from the top
and hangs down. From the centre top a long thin stem emerges to grow several
feet above the rest of the plant.
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43rd/48th Battalion The Hindmarsh Regiment
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1953/60 |
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45th
Battalion The St George Regiment
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oppose
Collar dogs. Brass,
non void, for ORs, gilt & enameled, void, for officers.
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Above. ORs hat badge in brass, void
<<< Below Officer's
hat badge enameled
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St George Regiment & St
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Era
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1948-1953 |
"Quo Fata Vocant" |
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46th Infantry Battalion The Brighton Rifles
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46th
Battalion The Brighton Rifles
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47th Battalion
The Wide Bay Regiment
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Original with KC
Reproduction |
brass
oxydised |
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1930-42 |
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48th Battalion Kooyong Infantry
Regiment
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48th
Battalion The Torrens Regiment
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