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Metal star badge of Arthur Stanley Frost, RAAF Air Training Corps [PRG 1696/7/53/5] • Photograph

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Summary

Digital copy of a small metal seven pointed star badge from Arthur Stanley Frost's uniform, Air Training Corps. (ATC) Royal Australian Air Force, 72 Squadron.

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Physical description

1 uniform badge (digital copy) : metal, cloth

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1944-1945

Subject

Frost, Arthur Stanley, 1927-2000
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
Australia. Royal Australian Air Force. Air Training Corps -- Collectibles -- Australia

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General notes

Part of a collection comprising digital copies of artefacts, diary and photographs relating to Ernest Arthur Frost's WWI service with the Third Australian Light Horse, and Frost family photographs.

Original not held.

Size of original 1 cm diameter.

Historical information

In February 1941, the War Cabinet approved the formation of a cadet corps (known as the Air Training Corps or ATC) as part of the RAAF Reserve. Although staffed by a small nucleus of RAAF personnel, most of ATC's instructors were unpaid volunteers, many of whom had been pilots in WWI. By 31 October 1943, 12,000 cadets were training. Although this number declined to 7,557 when the Pacific War ended in August 1945, by then just under 12,000 former members had gone on to enlist in the wartime RAAF.

Digitisation information

Date

28/10/2016

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,407 x 4,515 pixels (19.9 MP)

Size

59.73 MB

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