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America Day. [SRG 435/18/16] • Realia

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Summary

WW1 fundraising badge created for America Day by the Cheer-Up Society S.A., featuring an illustration of two soldiers, an Australian soldier on the left with the Australian flag behind him, and an American soldier on the right with the flag of the United States behind him, standing on opposite sides of a cliff, reaching across to shake hands, with the ocean in the background and an aircraft flying in the sky.

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Physical description

Artefacts (badges)
tin (pressed tin circle badge with an image on front and pin attachment verso)
Badge (tin), 3.4 cm.

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1918

Creator

Returned Services League of Australia

Collection

Part of RSL Collection

Subject

Birdwood, William Riddell, Baron, 1865-1951.
Galway, Henry, Sir, 1859-1949.
Australia. Army -- Medals, badges, decorations, etc.
Returned Services League of Australia. South Australian Branch.
Cheer-up Society (S.A.)
Australian Red Cross Society. South Australian Division.
Meningie Hotel (Meningie, S.A.)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- War work -- Red Cross.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- South Australia.
Charities -- South Australia -- Adelaide.
Fund raising -- South Australia.
Badges -- South Australia.
Australia Day -- South Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- South Australia.

Catalogue record

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General notes

See also SRG 435/18/25 for another item from Series 18.

For more information about badges and War fundraising, see also PRG 280/1/15/196, SRG 770/40/309, B 56327/32.

Digitisation information

Date

28/05/2015

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,194 x 2,936 pixels (9.4 MP)

Size

28.17 MB

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