Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia badge : W F Lindsay

Brass and enamel membership lapel badge for the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia (RSSILA) showing a white enamelled shield with brass figures of a sailor and soldier in the centre within a blue enamel circle bearing the words 'RETURNED SAILORS & SOLDIERS. IMPERIAL LEAGUE'. Beneath is a red enamelled scroll with 'AUSTRALIA'. The badge is surmounted by a king's crown bearing an attached silver and light blue membership crown for [19]35. The reverse has an impressed serial number 'A24910' on the brass half moon attachment that allows the badge to be fitted to the buttonhole on a jacket's lapel.

Associated with the service of 6072 Private William Frank Lindsay who served with the 19th Reinforcements to 13 Battalion, AIF. Frank Lindsay was a 23 year old railway night officer in Sydney when he enlisted in the AIF on 7 March 1916. After training in Australia and Britain he joined his battalion in Belgium at the end of September 1917. On 17 October 1917 he was wounded by poison gas and was evacuated to the War Hospital at Reading, England. He was discharged from hospital two months later and after leave and further training rejoined his battalion in April 1918. Lindsay survived the war and returned to Australia on 2 June 1919. His health never recovered fully after he was gassed and he died unmarried in 1935.