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M.P.S. flag badge. [SRG 435/19/136] • Realia

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Summary

World War One era badges (also known as buttons or 'tinnies') collected by the R.S.L. Most badges were designed and created to be puchased as a fundraising interest, in order to raise money for various factions of the Red Cross. Included are badges created for occasions such as Australia Day, Violet Day, Army Nurses Day, and French Day, and for charity groups including the Red Cross, the Cheer-Up Society, the R.S.A. Building Fund (Returned Soldiers' Association, which later became the R.S.L.), the Wattle Day League, Soldiers' Home, Children's Patriotic League, Nursing Society, and the Y.M.C.A., as well as official peace badges marking the end of the war and various miscellaneous badges including a Christian Endeavour convention, fundraising carnivals and memorial gardens. Also includes some button badges from the inter-war years, 1919-1938, and from the Second World War, and other metal badges from WW1 and WW2. See below for details.

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Physical description

Artefact (badges)
tin (pressed tin circle badge with an image on front and pin attachment verso)
Badge (tin), 2.3 cm.

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1917

Creator

Returned Services League of Australia

Collection

Part of RSL Collection

Subject

Butler, Harry, 1889-1924.
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.
Australian Wattle Day League -- South Australia.
Young Men's Christian Association of Adelaide (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

To view other items in this series do an ARCHIVAL NUMBER search on SRG 435/19.

See also SRG 435/18 for other WW1 and WW2 era button badges.

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

16/06/2015

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,366 x 2,669 pixels (9.0 MP)

Size

26.97 MB

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