- 1157. AASC New Guinea
Force, 1942-1945: Auth. GRO 370/1942, 4.9.1942. Despite
the demise of New Guinea Force in 1944, this colour patch continued
in use until at least late 1945, for example members of 74th Aust.
Transport Platoon, 151st Aust. General Transport Company, were still
wearing this patch in August 1945, although their unit had been
allotted to First Aust. Army in 1944. Worn also by HQ Air
Maintenance Companies and Air Transport Supply Platoons.
- The 151st Aust. Gen. Tpt Coy Association has
advised however that at the same time other subunits of the
company were wearing No. 1647. Telephone conversation with the
Victorian 1997 Anzac Day reunion organiser, Mr. Frank Robb, on
24.4.1997. The original reference is taken from a photograph
which appears on page 329 of Equal to the Task, N. Lindsay.
- 1158. Motor Transport
Units AASC, New Guinea Force: NSW
manufacture, Victoria Barracks collection.
- 1159. Horse Transport
Units AASC, New Guinea Force: Western
Australian manufacture. Possibly for 7th Aust. Pack Transport
Company, raised in New Guinea by expansion of the 1st Independent
Light Horse Troop.
- 1160. Supply Units AASC,
New Guinea Force: NSW manufacture,
J.A. Ryan Collection, AWM.
- 1161. BIPOD Units AASC,
New Guinea Force: NSW manufacture,
J.A. Ryan Collection, AWM. In mid 1943,
Bulk Petroleum Storage Companies serving in New Guinea were
specifically ordered to wear No. 1157.
- 1162. Supply Units AASC,
Northern Territory Force: Western
Australian manufacture.
- 1163. Horse Transport
Units AASC, Tasmania Force: CCF
manufacture in compressed felt, and possibly designed for the 4th
Aust. Pack Transport Company which was raised on a restricted
establishment in February 1943.
- 1164. Unidentified:
- 1165. Unidentified:
- 1166. Motor Transport
Units AASC, 1943-1945: Auth. GRO 468/1943, 18.6.1943.
- Included 127th-139th
Aust. General Transport Companies;
- LHQ Car Company;
- 3rd Aust. Independent Motor
Ambulance Convoy.
- 1167. Pack Transport
Companies, AASC, 1943-1945: Auth. GRO 468/1943,
18.6.1943.
- 1168. Supply Units AASC,
1943-1945: Auth. GRO 468/1943, 18.6.1943.
- Included HQ 2/1st Aust.
Base Supply Depot;
- HQ's 1st and 2nd Aust. Supply
Reserve Depots (formerly
4th and 5th Aust. BSD's);
- HQ's 2/3rd and 23rd Aust.
Supply Depot Companies;
- 11th to 13th, and 160th to
177th Aust. Supply Depot Platoons.
- 1169. Bulk Issue Petrol
and Oil Depot Units AASC, 1943-1945: Auth. GRO 468/1943,
18.6.1943.
- Included
- BIPOD Platoons;
- 1st Aust. Mobile Oil
Reclamation Unit.
- Note: Considerable departure from the approved
shades of blue, i.e.. University Blue inset on Dark Blue
background, will be noted on colour patches for LHQ Troops AASC
supplied by manufacturers other than the Commonwealth Clothing
Factory.
- 1170. (a) Details, Aust.
Army Service Corps, 1925-1930: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 111,
1925. Depot Sub-sections, AASC, of the Citizen Forces were disbanded
in 1930 and use of this patch lapsed at this stage.
- See also PERMANENT MILITARY FORCES, No. 386.
- (b) Non-Divisional
Units AASC(M), Eastern Command, 1940-1942: Allotted
to Eastern Command AASC Troops by AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 5473,
30.1.1940, but according to an ADST NSW L of C Area memo, No.
165834 of 24.8.1942, by August 1942 only supply units of the
AASC were still wearing this patch, and of the various units,
only 12th Aust. Supply Personnel Company appears to have
actually been wearing them. Although a nucleus of Supply
Personnel Companies of the AASC(M) were placed on the Order of
Battle in each Military District in 1938, these were attached
for peacetime training to a convenient divisional or mixed
brigade AASC and wore the patch of that unit in most cases until
late 1942.
- 1171. Remount Units
AASC(M), 1940-1942: Auth. AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 11754,
28.2.1940, and AAO 28/1941, 28.2.1941. On
mobilization the various remount squadrons and troops of the AASC(M)
amalgamated with remount depots of the AASC(P) to form remount
squadrons.
- 1172. AASC Aust. Overseas Base
Sub-Area, 1940-1941;
- Aust. Base and L of C
Area Units AASC, 1941-1943: Auth. Colour chart
promulgated with AHQ(DOS) Memo No. - 70030, 21.10.1940.
- Included
- 1st Aust. Base Supply
Depot;
- Base Transport Platoon;
- Special Base Transport
Platoon;
- Detail Issues Depots;
- 2/4th Aust. Reserve Motor
Transport Company;
- 1st and 2nd Aust. Petrol
Depots;
- 2/1st Aust. Field Butchery
and Cold Storage Unit;
- 2/1st Aust. Field Bakery;
- Supply Personnel Sections;
- 1st Aust. Base Provision
Office (Supplies);
- Port Detachment AASC.
- Line of Communication Area
Motor Transport Units AASC, 1942-1945: Auth. GRO
663/1942, 11.12.1942.
- Units included:
- General Transport
Companies;
- Car Companies and Platoons;
- Ambulance Car Companies;
- Bridge Companies.
- Most ambulance car
companies were manned by the AWAS.
- 1173. Queensland L of C
Area:
- 1174. New South Wales L of
C Area:
- 1175. Victoria L of C
Area:
- 1176. South Australia L of
C Area:
- 1177. Western Australia L
of C Area, 1942-1944;
- Western Command,
1944-1945:
- 1178. Tasmania L of C
Area:
- 1179. Northern Territory L
of C Area: These units included the
general transport companies operating as part of Central Australia
Transport Column, formerly the Darwin Overland Maintenance Force,
between Alice Springs and Darwin.
- 1180. New Guinea L of C
Area:
Line of Communication Area Horse Transport and
Remount Units AASC, 1942-1945: Auth. GRO 663/1942, 11.12.1942.
- Units included
- Auxiliary Horse Transport
Companies and Platoons;
- Horsed Transport Depot;
- Remount Squadrons.
- 1181. Queensland L of C
Area:
- Initially the 1st
and 2nd Aust. Auxiliary Horse Transport Companies,
and
- 1st Aust. Remount Squadron,
comprised 1st Aust. Remount Squadron only from November 1944.
- 1182. New South Wales L of
C Area:
- Initially the
- 3rd, 4th and 5th Aust.
Auxiliary Horse Transport Companies,
- 1st
Aust. Horsed Transport Depot, and
- 2nd Aust. Remount
Squadron, comprised 2nd Aust.
Remount Squadron only from July 1944.
- 1183. Victoria L of C
Area:
- Initially the
- 6th and 7th Aust.
Auxiliary Horse Transport Companies and
- 5th Aust. Remount
Squadron, still comprised 6th
Aust. Auxiliary Horse Transport Company and 5th Aust.
Remount Squadron in March 1945.
- 1184. South Australia L of
C Area: Comprised 8th Aust.
Auxiliary Horse Transport Company and 4th Aust. Remount Squadron.
- 1185. Western Australia L
of C Area, 1942-1944;
- Western Command,
1944-1945: Initially comprised
9th Aust. Auxiliary Horse Transport Company and 3rd Aust.
Remount Squadron, reduced to the latter in 1944.
- 1186. Tasmania L of C
Area: Initially 10th Aust.
Auxiliary Horse Transport Company and 6th Aust. Remount Squadron,
reduced to one platoon of the former unit in March 1945.
- 1187. Northern Territory L
of C Area: No horsed transport
units existed in the Northern Territory and the remount capability
was undertaken by 7th Aust. Veterinary Hospital and Remount Section
AAVC. A genuine example has been noted in the J.A. Ryan Collection,
AWM, however no stocks of this patch were held in the postwar period
and all examples noted to date in private collections have been
reproductions.
- 1188. New Guinea L of C
Area: The only horsed transport
units existing in New Guinea were pack transport companies, which
were LHQ units, and there is no evidence that they wore this colour
patch. CCF manufactured examples do exist.
Line of Communication Area Supply Units AASC,
1942-1945: Auth. GRO 663/1942, 11. 12.1942.
- Units included:
- Supply Personnel Companies;
- Detail Issues Depots;
- HQ Supply Depot Companies;
- Supply Depot Platoons;
- District Supply Depots;
- HQ Base Supply Depots;
- HQ Supply Reserve Depots;
- Field Bakeries;
- HQ Field Baking Companies;
- Baking Platoons;
- HQ Field Butchering Companies;
- Field Butchering Platoons;
- HQ Farms Group;
- Farm Companies;
- Independent Farm Platoons;
- Experimental Farm Platoon;
- Marine Food Supply Platoons;
- Refrigeration Plant Operating
Platoons;
- Port Detachments AASC.
- 1189. Queensland L of C
Area:
- 1190. New South Wales L of
C Area:
- 1191. Victoria L of C
Area:
- 1192. South Australia L of
C Area:
- 1193. Western Australia L
of C Area, 1942-1944;
- Western Command, 1944-1945:
- 1194. Tasmania L of C
Area:
- 1195. Northern Territory L
of C Area:
- 1196. New Guinea L of C
Area:
Line of Communication Area Bulk Issue Petrol and
Oil Depots AASC, 1942-1945: (BIPODS) Auth. GRO 663/1942,
11.12.1942.
- 1197. Queensland L of C
Area: Comprised No. I and No.2
Queensland L of C BIPODs and initially 2/1st Aust. Petrol Depot.
This patch was also retained until early 1945 by 57th Aust. BIPOD
Platoon, which was raised from these units in early 1944 for 1st
Aust. Beach Group.
- 1198. New South Wales L of
C Area BIPOD: This patch was also
retained until early 1945 by the 58th Aust. BIPOD Platoon, which was
raised from this unit in early 1944 for 2nd
Aust. Beach Group.
- 1199. Victoria L of C Area
BIPOD:
- 1200. South Australia L of
C Area BIPOD: Disbanded in 1944.
- 1201. Western Australia L
of C Area BIPOD, 1942-1944:
- Western Command BIPOD,
1944-1945:
- 1202. Tasmania L of C Area
BIPOD: Disbanded in 1944.
- 1203. Northern Territory L
of C Area:
- Comprised of
- Northern Territory BIPOD
and
- Central Australia BIPOD,
later
- 1st and 4th Aust. BIPODs,
- 11 Aust. L of C Area BIPOD
and
- 3rd Aust. Bulk Petroleum
Storage Company.
- 1204. New Guinea L of C
Area BIPOD: Subsequently 2nd and 3rd Aust. BIPODs.
- 1205- 12 10. Reserved.
Granted the title 'Royal' in 1948.
Note: (a) AAMC personnel
serving with non-medical units, i.e.. Regimental Medical Officers,
hygiene personnel, etc. These personnel were directed to wear a colour
patch comprising a chocolate centre with grey background, the shape of
the colour patch conforming with that of the infantry brigade or
formation to which the member was attached. CMF personnel were not to
wear the grey background. Auth. Standing Orders AIF 1940, Chapter X,
Para. 209(k), and a DGMS Instruction dated 29.9.1942 which was
promulgated in unit Routine Orders Part 1, e.g.. RO Pt I No. 479, 1
10th Aust. Anti-Tank Regiment, 21.10.1942. Numerous variations of
colour patch design probably exist as a result of varying
interpretations of this instruction.
(b) Transport sections of
Field Ambulances were AASC units and wore the patch of their
appropriate formation AASC. Motor Ambulance Convoys were originally
AAMC units with a strong AASC transport and workshop wing (three
sections each of 25 ambulances, and one workshop section), by the end
of 1942 they had been reorganized completely as AASC units. The
transport wings of District Sections, Motor Ambulance Convoys, AAMC,
except 7th MD, were reorganized as Ambulance Car Sections (later
Ambulance Car Companies) AASC, in August 1942.
- 1211. AAMC 1st Aust.
Corps, 1940-1945: Auth. Colour patch chart promulgated
with AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 70030,21.10.1940.
- 1212.AAMC 2nd Aust. Corps,
1942-1945: Auth. GRO 206/1942,17.7.1942.
- 1213. AAMC 2nd Aust.
Corps: Variation, NSW manufacture,
Victoria Barracks Collection.
- 1214. AAMC 3rd Aust.
Corps, 1942-1944: Auth. GRO 206/1942,17.7.1942.
- 1215. AAMC New Guinea
Force, 1942-1945: Auth. GRO 370/1942,4.9.1942.
- 1216. AAMC New Guinea
Force: Variation, NSW manufacture,
Victoria Barracks Collection.
- 1217. AAMC Northern
Territory Force, 1943-1945: Auth. GRO 165/1943,
19.2.1943. For issue to all Field Ambulances,
Camp Hospitals, the AAMC Detachment I I Aust. L of C Sub-Area, and
AAMC personnel serving with non-medical units of 12th Aust. Division
and Northern Territory L of C Area.
- 1218. AAMC 1st Division,
1921-1942;
- AAMC 1st Aust.
Division, 1942-1945: Auth. SO Clothing Pt III, 1922.
- 1219. 16th Field Ambulance
AAMC: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 111 1922.
- This unit was raised on
1.9.1921 as a non-divisional unit attached to the 1st Division,
and was disbanded on 30.6.1922. It does not appear that this
colour patch was issued, the entire stock still being held in 5
BOD in December 1946. The 16th Field Ambulance was re-raised in
3rd Military District on 1.11.1938 by redesignation of the 5th
Cavalry Field Ambulance and initially retained No. 1236 as part
of 2nd Cavalry Division.
- 1220. AAMC 2nd Division,
1921-1942;
- AAMC 2nd Aust.
Division, 1942-1944: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 1111922.
- 1221. AAMC 3rd Division,
1921-1942;
- AAMC 3rd Aust.
Division, 1942-1945: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 1111922.
- 1222. AAMC 4th Division,
1921-1942;
- AAMC 4th Aust.
Division, 1942-1944: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 1111922.
- 1223. 17th Field Ambulance
AAMC: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 111 1922.
- Raised on 1.9.1921 in 4th
Military District as a non-divisional unit attached to the 4th
Division, and disbanded on 30.6.1922. A limited quantity of
these patches was still held in 2 BOD in January 1947,
suggesting that they were issued to the unit. 17th Field
Ambulance was re-raised in 2nd Military District on 1.11.1938 by
redesignation of 2nd Cavalry Field Ambulance, and wore No. 1235
as it had remained part of 1st Cavalry Division. It reverted to
its original designation in 1940, later becoming 2nd Aust. Light
Field Ambulance. Another l7th Field Ambulance was raised in 1941
and wore No. 1217.
- 1224. (a) AAMC 11th Mixed
Brigade, 1921-1940;
- AAMC Northern Command,
1940- 1942;
- AAMC 5th Aust.
Division, 1942-1945:
- (b) AAMC, Field
Troops, 5th Military District, 1921-1940;
- AAMC Western Command,
1940-1942:
- (c) AAMC, Field
Troops, 6th Military District, 1921-1942;
- AAMC Tasmania
Force, 1942-1944: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 1111922.
- 1225. AAMC 6th Aust.
Division, 193 9-1945: Ref. MGO Branch Line Drawings, p.
17.
- 1226. AAMC 7th Aust.
Division, 1940-1945: Ref. MGO Branch Line Drawings, p.
17.
- 1227. AAMC 8th Aust.
Division, 1940-1945: Ref. MGO Branch Line Drawings, p.17.
The majority of medical units and personnel of
this formation were captured in Singapore, Ambon, Timor and New
Britain between January and March 1942.
- 1228. AAMC 8th Aust.
Division: All examples noted to
date of this colour patch are of Western Australian manufacture and
there is no confirmation that they were worn. Based on existing
evidence, the only probability of wear is by AAMC personnel serving
with the 12/14th Aust. Field Regiment.
- 1229. Unidentified:
Military Heraldry Collection, AWM, and
apparently issued to personnel, probably those attached to units of
the 22nd Aust. Infantry Brigade.
- 1230. AAMC 9th Aust.
Division, 1940-1942: Ref. To Benghazi: Long, Appendix 4. Superseded
by No. 1231 in December 1942.
- 1231. AAMC 9th Aust.
Division, 1942-1945: Auth. GRO 225/1943, 12.3.1943.
- 1232. Unidentified: Of
Middle East manufacture, possibly in error for No. 1231.
- 1233. Unidentified: J.A.
Ryan Collection, AWM.
- - AAMC 10th Aust.
Division, 1942: No colour patch is
known to have been allotted to units and personnel of this
formation.
- 1234. AAMC l1th Aust.
Division: To date no evidence has
been located to confirm that HQ I I th Aust. Division at any time
sought approval for this patch. Strictly speaking there was no need
to do so, as a standing order was already in force that allowed AAMC
personnel to wear their colour patch in the shape of the formation
to which they belonged. All examples noted to date are of Western
Australian manufacture and are unworn.
- - AAMC 12th Aust.
Division: See AAMC Northern
Territory Force, No. 1217.
- 1235. AAMC 1st Cavalry
Division, 1921-1942;
- AAMC 1st Aust. Motor
Division, 1942: Auth. SO Clothing Pt III, 1922.
- 1236. AAMC 2nd Cavalry
Division, 1921-1942;
- AAMC 2nd Aust. Motor
Division, 1942: Auth. SO Clothing Pt 111, 1922.
Superseded by No. 1238 in August 1942.
- 1237. (a) AAMC 1st Aust.
Armoured Division, 1941-1943: Ref. AHQ(DOS) Memo No.
14520, 7.3.1941.
- (b) 2/14th Aust. Light
Field Ambulance AAMC, 1943-1945: Continued
to be worn by this unit and other AAMC personnel allotted to
units of 1st Aust. Armoured Brigade Group after September 1943.
- 1238. AAMC 2nd Aust. Motor
Division, 1942-1943: Auth. GRO 301/1942, 7.8.1942.
- 1239. AAMC 3rd Aust.
Armoured Division, 1943-1944: Auth. GRO 165/1943,
19.2.1943. The 2/15th Aust. Light Field
Ambulance was retained after the disbandment of this formation,
being reorganized as the 2/15th Aust. Field Ambulance.
- 1240. 4th Aust. Light
Field Ambulance AAMC, 1943: Auth. GRO 375/1943, 7.5.1943.
Worn by this unit and AAMC personnel allotted
to other units of 3rd Aust. Army Tank Brigade. The initial order for
the supply of these colour patches was submitted to Braeside Pty Ltd
on 11.2.1943 as MGO Order No. 3724 and woven examples exist. NSW
manufactured examples are also extant, that in the J.A. Ryan
Collection, AWM, measuring 2 and 1/2 inches by I and 1/2 inches. An
example with a green background has been located in another AWM
collection however this appears on examination to have been
specifically manufactured by the donor.
- 1241. 6th Aust. Light
Field Ambulance AAMC, 1943;
- 106th Aust. Light
Field Ambulance AAMC, 1943-1945: Auth. GRO 310/1943,
16.4.1943. Worn also by AAMC personnel
allotted to other units of 4th Aust. Armoured Brigade.
- - 20th Aust. Field
Ambulance AAMC: An order for 1,000 pairs of colour
patches for this unit was placed with the CCF on 10.11.1942 (MGO
Order No. 3271). It was shown as LHQ Troops in
the Order of Battle, October 1942, but was apparently disbanded
before its colour patches could be issued, and in excess of 2,100
patches for this unit were still held by 2 BOD in January 1947. It
was reformed in late 1945 as part of B.C.O.F., Japan. No details
regarding the actual design of this patch have yet been located.
- AAMC Companies (Beach
Group), 1944-1945: This was a new
type of unit raised in early 1944 to meet the needs of amphibious
landing operations. The 1st and 2nd AAMC Companies (Beach Group)
were raised from the 2/12th and 1st Aust. Field Ambulances
respectively and according to a 1st Aust. Corps minute G/3360/SD,
dated 21.5.1944, personnel continued to wear the colour patch of
their parent unit, ie., AAMC 8th and 1st Aust. Divisions
respectively.
- Sanitary Sections,
1921-1926; Field Hygiene Sections, Cavalry Field Hygiene Sections
and Light Field Hygiene Sections, 1926-1942: These
units wore the colour patch of the divisional or mixed brigade AAMC
to which they were attached. In July 1942 all such units were
disbanded, qualified personnel being attached to units and formation
headquarters, where they wore the AAMC patch appropriate to that
formation.
- Change in designation was vide AAO 455/1926,
21.8.1926.
- Mobile Bath Units,
1943-1945: Prior to early 1943,
mobile bath units were miscellaneous units and were directed to wear
the colour patch of the headquarters of the formation to which they
belonged. (AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 70030,21.10.1940.) In
January 1943 they became units of the AAMC, and were allotted the
colour patch of the formation AAMC to which they belonged.
- 1242. Details, AAMC
(Militia), 1925-1940;
- Non-Divisional Units,
AAMC, 19401942: Auth. SO Clothing -Pt 111 1925. These
details were attached to a convenient field ambulance for
training, being expanded into unit cadres from 1936 for casualty
clearing stations, garrison companies, and medical and
veterinary stores. The history of the medical stores units
states that the prewar colour patch of 2nd Military District
Depot Medical and Veterinary Stores was "...borrowed from
8th Field Ambulance [to which it was attached for peacetime
training] but turned sideways ... brown with a cherry-red cross
bar. (Medical Stores, Rob Nash, p.39.)
The 'turned sideways' reference has not been confirmed, as 8th
Field Ambulance were then wearing the colour patch of AAMC 1st
Division, this statement possibly referring to the original
patch worn by 8th Aust. Field Ambulance during 1916-1919.
Ironically Eastern Command (formerly 2nd MD) Depot Med. &
Vet. Stores had ceased to wear any colour patches by late 1941.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War this colour patch
was approved for wear by full time duty personnel of all medical
units other than infantry and cavalry divisional AAMC. (AHQ(DOS)
Memo No. 70488,17.9.1941. AA(Vic):MP 508/1, item 36/702/69.)
This included personnel of the AAMC (Dental Services). It
appears with a grey background and was progressively superseded
by the extensive scheme of non-divisional AAMC patches
promulgated in August 1942.
- 1243. AAMC Aust. Overseas
Base Sub-Area, 1940-1941;
- AAMC, Aust. Base and L
of C Area Units, 1941-1943: Auth. Colour patch chart
promulgated with AHQ (DOS) Memo No. 70030, 21.10.1940.
- Included
- Convalescent Depots;
- Base Depots Medical
Stores;
- Base AAMC Company;
- 2/6th Field Hygiene
Section;
- Anti-Malarial Units;
- 2/1st and 2/2nd Aust.
Mobile Bacteriological Laboratories;
- Motor Ambulance Convoys
(Medical Wings).
- 1244. AAMC Victoria L of C
Area: CCF manufacture, no further details located.
- 1245. AAMC 7th Military
District, 1941-1942: Auth. AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 21986,
3.4.1941. For AAMC personnel of CMF hospitals,
etc, at Darwin and other tropical stations not otherwise provided
for. Approved as a result of a request for the issue of a colour
patch to the 119th General Hospital.
Hospital ships were a military unit,
administered as an army general hospital. Maintenance and control of
their movements were the responsibility of the Royal Australian Navy,
while sailing of the vessel was undertaken by personnel of the Merchant
Navy.
- 1246. 2/1st Aust. Hospital
Ship, Manunda, 1940-1945: Auth. Colour patch chart
promulgated with AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 70030, 21.10.1940. This
vessel was a converted passenger liner.
- 1247. 2/2nd Aust. Hospital
Ship, Wanganella, 1941-1945: Ref. AHQ(DOS) Memo No.
35625, 30.5.1941, submitting MGO Order No. 1227 to the CCF for the
initial supply of these colour patches. This
vessel was a converted passenger liner.
This colour patch was also issued to Australian personnel posted to
the staff of the 1st Netherlands Military Hospital Ship Oranje
between 1941 and 1942.
- 1248. 3rd Aust. Hospital
Ship, Centaur, 1943: Auth. GRO 375/1943, 7.5.1943. This
vessel was a converted passenger and cargo vessel, and was torpedoed
and sunk on 15.5.1943, on her maiden voyage.
- 1249. 4th Aust. Hospital
Ship, Stradbroke 11, 1943-1944: Auth. GRO 375/1943,
7.5.1943. This vessel differed in operation
from the previous three, being a converted luxury yacht
requisitioned from the Port Phillip Pilot Service in April 1943 by
the army and operated as a sea ambulance transport (AH169). Manning
was carried out initially by 4th Aust. Sea Ambulance Transport
Company (Small Craft) RAE, then from late 1944 by 13th Aust. Small
Ships Company RAE.
- 1250. 1st Netherlands
Military Hospital Ship, Oranje, (AMF Component), 1942-1943:
Auth. AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 23643, 5.3.1942. The
initial order for supply was placed with the CCF on 14.4.1942. This
vessel was a converted fast motor liner, manned, equipped and
operated by the Netherlands Government for use on the Middle
East-Australia-New Zealand run. Initially the small Australian
liaison staff posted to the vessel in 1941 were issued No. 1247
(Letter to DGMS from OC Aust. Troops, 1st Netherlands Military
Hospital Ship, dated 2.3.1942. AA(Vic.):MP 508/1, item 36/756/108.) but
on 2nd February 1942 the Dutch commander of the ship requested that
the inset be changed to orange to represent the colour of the
Netherlands Royal House. The Australian staff, greatly increased in
1942, including VAD's, was withdrawn from the vessel in early 1943.
- 1251. Sea Transport Staff (AAMC Personnel),
1941-1945: Auth. GRO 468/1943, 18.6.1943, however the first
reference was AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 36323, dated 3.6.1941, which placed
MGO Order No. 1252 with the CCF for the initial supply of this
patch.
- Worn by the
- Sea Ambulance Transport
Companies,
- Sea Ambulance Medical
Staffs and Detachments, Aust. Sea Ambulance Transport.
In addition to supplying medical support on transports and
sea ambulances returning to Australia from overseas, these
personnel also served on hospital launches operated in the
Islands by water ambulance convoys and other water transport
units of the RAE.
- 1252. 2/1st Aust. Casualty
Clearing Station, 1940-1945: Auth. Colour patch chart
promulgated with AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 70030, 21.10.1940. First
issued in March 1940.
- 1253. 2/2nd Aust. Casualty
Clearing Station, 1940-1945: Auth. Colour patch chart
promulgated with AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 70030,21.10.1940.
- 1254. 2/3rd Aust. Casualty
Clearing Station, 1940-1945: Auth. Colour patch chart
promulgated with AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 70030,21.10.1940.
- 1255. 2/4th Aust. Casualty
Clearing Station, 1941-1945: Ref. AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 6158,
31.1.1941, placing MGO Order No. 935 with the CCF for the initial
supply of these patches. This unit was
captured in Singapore in February 1942.
Note: The authority for No's 1256 to 1266 inclusive is
GRO 321/1942, 14.8.1942, unless otherwise stated.
- 1256. 2nd Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 102nd Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1945:
- 1257. 2nd Aust. C.C.S.:
Manufactured in NSW c.1942 but not approved or issued. 2nd
Aust. CCS formed part of 2nd Aust. Corps during this period.
- 1258. 3rd Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 103rd Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1944:
- 1259. 4th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 104th Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1945:
- 1260. 5th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 105th Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1945:
- 1261. 6th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 106th Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1945:
- 1262. 7th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 107th Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1944:
- 1263. 8th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 108th Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1945:
- 1264. 9th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 109th Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1945:
- 1265. 10th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 110th Aust. C.C.S., 1943
-1945:
- 1266. 11th Aust. C.C.S.,
1942-1943;
- 111th Aust. C.C.S.,
1943-1945:
Note: The authority for No's 1267 to 1274 inclusive is
the colour patch chart promulgated with AHQ(DOS) Memo No.
70030,21.10.1940.
- 1267. 2/1st Aust. General
Hospital, 1940-1945: Initially
supplied by the CCF with a dark
green inset, not mid green as shown by MGO Branch line drawings.
Western Australian manufactured examples of this colour patch were
supplied in compressed felt with a light green inset. These should
not be confused with No. 1305.
- 1268. 2/2nd Aust. General
Hospital, 1940-1946:
- - 2nd Aust. Special
Hospital, 1940: Raised in the
Middle East in July 1940 from personnel of the 2/1st AGH to replace
the 3rd Aust. Special Hospital, diverted to the United Kingdom. No
colour patch was approved for this unit, which subsequently was
reorganized as the nucleus of 8th Aust. Special Hospital.
- 1269. (a) 3rd Aust.
Special Hospital, 1940: Disbanded
and absorbed by the 2/3rd AGH
in the United Kingdom.
- (b) 2/3rd Aust. General
Hospital, 1940-1942: Raised on
30.7.1940 from members of 3rd ASH and other AAMC personnel in the
UK. It arrived in Palestine in May 1941 but was not re-established
as an active unit, personnel being posted to other hospitals in the
Middle East. Personnel were still posted against the establishment
of the unit in December 1941 but it was disbanded soon afterwards.
- 1270. 2/4th Aust. General
Hospital, 1940-1945:
- 1271. 2/5th Aust. General
Hospital, 1940-1945:
- 1272. 2/6th Aust. General
Hospital, 1940-1946:
- 1273. 2/7th Aust. General
Hospital, 1940-1945: Initial order for supply was MGO
Order
No. 496, 1.8.1940, submitted to the CCF.
- 1274. 8th Aust. Special
Hospital, 1940-1943; 2/8th Aust.
- General Hospital,
1943-1945: These colour patches were first issued in
Australia in September 1940.
- 1275. 2/9th Aust. General
Hospital, 1941-1946: Ref MGO Branch Line Drawings, p. 18.
- 1276. 2/10th Aust. General
Hospital, 1941-1945: Ref MGO Branch Line Drawings, p. 18,
but supplied with a dark green inset. Captured in Singapore in
February 1942.
- 1277. 2/11th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1945: Ref. MGO Branch Line Drawings, p.18.
This reference refers to the unit as 11th Aust. Special Hospital,
which is incorrect.
- 1278. 2/11th Aust. General
Hospital, 1941-1942: Auth. HQ AIF(ME) Memo No. 3800,
9.3.1942. It has not been confirmed when
this particular colour patch was issued,
although the unit had been in the Middle East since mid 1941,
leaving for Australia at the
end of January 1942. Approval was granted in the Middle East without
reference to AHQ
and probably dated well prior to that quoted above. There is some
speculation that the
upright inset in this patch, usually reserved for hospital ships,
was approved because the
hospital was specifically established at Alexandria, Egypt, to
receive casualties returning
by sea from the Western Desert and Greece.
- 1279. 2/12th Aust. General
Hospital, 1941-1945: Ref AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 43527,
27.6.1941, placing the initial order for supply (MGO Order No. 1192)
with the CCF.
- 1280. 2/13th Aust. General
Hospital, 1941-1945: Ref AHQ(DOS) Memo No. 57294,
7.8.1941, MGO Order No. 1282 to the CCF for initial supply. Captured
in Singapore in
February 1942.
- 14th Aust. Special
Hospital, 1941-1942: Auth. HQ AIF(ME) Memo No. 13424,
5.11.1941. Apparently issued in the Middle East prior to the
departure of the unit for Australia at the beginning of February
1942. This design was authorised in the Middle
East differing from that initially approved by AHQ, and as late as
April 1942 the CO 14th ASH was seeking advice from GHQ(Aust.) as to
what colour patch was to be worn by his unit. In any case I believe
that an error appears in the diagram submitted with HQ AIF(ME) Memo
No. 3800 of 9.3.1942 advising the Military Board of approval for
this patch; 'brown' for the colour of the inset should probably read
'maroon', as a brown inset was hardly likely to provide a striking
contrast against the chocolate brown background.
- 1282. 14th Aust. Special
Hospital, 1942;
- 2/14th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1945: Ref, AHQ(MGO) Memo No. 50296,
18.5.1942.
- 81st Aust. Special
Hospital, 1944-1945: Raised in mid
1944 by redesignation of 81st
Aust. Camp Hospital (Composite), and wore No.
1319.
Note: The authority for No's 1283 to 1321 is GRO
321/1942, 14.8.1942, unless otherwise stated.
- 1283. 101st Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1946:
1284. 102nd Aust. General Hospital,
1942-1945;
- No. 102 (Holland Park)
Military Hospital, 1945-1946:
- 1285. 103rd Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- 1286. 104th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1287. No. 105 (Adelaide)
Military Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1288. 106th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1289. 107th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1290.108th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1944:
- 1291. 109th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- Raised by expansion of 44th
Aust. Camp Hospital.
- 1292. No. 110 (Perth)
Military Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1293. 111th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- 1294. No. 112 (Brisbane)
Military Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1295. No. 113 (Concord)
Military Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1296. 114th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1945;
- No. 114 (Goulburn) Military
Hospital, 1945-1946:
- 1297. No. 115 (Heidelberg)
Military Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1298. 116th Aust General
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- 1299. 117th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1944:
- 1300. 118th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1301. 119th Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1943:
- Disbanded and reorganized as
86th Aust. Camp Hospital in November 1943.
- 1302. 120th Aust. Special
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- 1303. 121st Aust. General
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- 1304. 122nd Aust. Special
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- 1305. 123rd Aust. Special
Hospital, 1942-1945:
- 1306. 124th Aust. Special
Hospital, 1942-1946:
- 1307. 125th Aust. General
Hospital, 1943-1944: Auth. GRO 125/1943, 5.2.1943.
- 1308.126th Aust. Special
Hospital, 1943-1945: Auth. GRO 125/1943, 5,2.1943.
- Note: The 127th AGH
was not raised although it appeared briefly on
the Order of Battle as an LHQ unit in January 1943.
- 1309. 128th Aust. General
Hospital, 1943-1944: Auth. GRO 672/1943, 17.9.1943.
- 1310. 129th Aust. General
Hospital, 1943-1945: Auth. GRO 672/1943, 17.9.1943,
- 1311. 130th Aust. General
Hospital, 1945-1946: Ref AWM colour patch file card
register. (Note dated 13.6.1962 by the Director, AWM, regarding
information received from a former member of the unit on 11.6.1962,
and held on file 449/9/23. This describes a "chocolate square
on grey background', however a chart prepared by the BCOF
Association which appears on p. 50 of The Forgotten Force, James
Wood, shows No. 1650 as being worn by this unit.) Raised
in 1945 as a component of BCOF, Japan, and was reorganized as part
of the British Commonwealth General Hospital for BCFK in 1950.
- 1312. 1st Aust. Orthopedic
Hospital, 1942-1945
- 1313. Aust. Women's
Hospitals, 1942-1945: Auth. GRO 375/1943, 7.5.1943. 1st,
2nd, & 3rd.
- 1314. Camp Hospitals,
Queensland L of C Area, 1942-1946: 1st
to 10th, 47th, 56th, 66th, 67th, 70th, 71st (Composite), and 82nd.
- 1315. Camp Hospitals, New
South Wales L of C Area, 1942-1946: 11th
to 18th, 54th, 57th, 61st, 63rd, 68th, 72nd (Composite), and 77th.
- 1316. Camp Hospitals,
Victoria L of C Area, 1942-1946: 19th
to 30th, 48th to 51st, 58th, 62nd, 69th, 73rd (Composite), 78th,
79th, and 86th.
- 1317. Camp Hospitals,
South Australia L of C Area, 1942-1945: 32nd
to 36th, 52nd, 59th, 64th, and 74th (Composite).
- 1318. Camp Hospitals,
Western Australia L of C Area, 1942-1945: 37th
to 40th, 53rd, 60th, 75th (Composite).
- 1319. Camp Hospitals,
Tasmania L of C Area, 1942-1946: 41st,
80th (Composite), 81st
(Composite).
- 1320. Camp Hospitals,
Northern Territory L of C Area, 1942-1943: Darwin
Fortress, 42nd, 45th, 55th, 65th, and 76th (Composite). Superseded
by No. 1217 in February 1943.
- 1321. Camp Hospitals, New
Guinea L of C Area, 1942-1945: 46th
and 47th Aust. Camp
Hospitals.
- 1322. 2/1st Aust.
Convalescent Depot, 1942-1943: Auth. HQ AIF(ME) Memo No.
3800, 9.3.1942.
- 1323. 2/3rd Aust.
Convalescent Depot, 1942: Auth. HQ AIF(ME) Memo No. 3800,
9.3.1942.
- - 2/4th Aust. Convalescent
Depot: On 26.9.1942, HQ AIF (ME)
sought approval from LHQ for the allocation of a colour patch to
this unit, to comprise a chocolate square with grey background, with
a I inch by 1/2 inch oblong in light blue superimposed. Although no
further information is available regarding approval, in view of the
allocation during the previous month of an identical design to the
104th Aust. General Hospital, it is unlikely that authority would
have been given by LHQ
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