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Wattle Day League Hospital Wing Red Letter Day. [SRG 435/19/63] • Realia

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Summary

WW1 fundraising badge for the Wattle Day League Hospital Wing Red Letter Day for maimed soldiers, featuring an illustration of a red envelope with black postal marks in the centre, with the words 'Hospital Wing, Keswick, South Australia' on the front, on a white background, with text in red around the border, 'Red Letter Day for maimed soldiers, Dec. 21-1917, Wattle Day League Hospital Wing', and a red rim.

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Physical description

Artefact (badges)
tin (pressed tin circle badge with an image on front and pin attachment verso)
Badge (tin), 3.3 cm.

Dates / Publication details

1917

Creator

Returned Services League of Australia

Collection

Part of RSL Collection

Subject

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

26.98 MB

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