|
|
War
Widows Guild of Australia. The Kookaburra Badge
|
|
If
you can provide a colour photo of this badge please email
me |
Australian
Comforts Fund, Ballarat.
|
|
Volunteered
for Active Service but required for service in Australia Badge.
Called the "Home Service"
badge. WW1
Shown larger than actual.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
WW1 New Zealand Mothers
Of Empire Soldiers Sailors sterling silver lapel badge with broach
fitting, measures 27mm high. |
|
Female
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 |
|
Female
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
|
|
|
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).
|
|
Female Relatives Badge WW1 for Royal
Australian Navy. |
Given to nearest female relative of any
man on Active Service with the Royal Australian Navy in the Great War.
As with the AIF Female Relatives Badge provision was made for a bar for
each son serving. |
|
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."
I agree with him and have added
it here to highlight the commitment that families made to those 2 wars.
|
|
Click the image for
details |
|
|
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) |
|
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)
|
|
- US WW1 "Men in
Service" badge. Each star indicates as husband or son in
service with Army, Navy or USMC. The fact that the pin is
black indicates that the men have been killed in service.
|
|
ARP stands for AIR RAID PATROL |
photo
by Steve Risby |
|
If
you can provide a colour photo of this badge please email
me |
Sailors & Soldiers Fathers'
Association badges
photo by Tony McCabe
|
|
|
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. |
|
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 |