Australian Comforts Fund badge : Honorary Commissioner F P Clune, ACF

Circular brass badge with orange enamel. The outer circle bears the words 'AUSTRALIAN COMFORTS FUND' and a star inside the circle 'ACF' in wreath, with 'COMMISSIONER'.

2460 Francis Patrick Clune, enlisted on 12 May 1915 in the 7th Reinforcements of 16 Battalion AIF and returned to Australia on 31 October 1915. He was taken on strength on the Gallipoli Penisula on 2 August 1915 and wounded by shrapnel in both legs on 7 August 1915. Discharged Sydney 29 March 1916. During the Second World War he was appointed Australian Comforts Fund representative with officer's status for attachment to the AIF overseas, with rank of Honorary Commissioner on 8 December 1941. He embarked for the Middle East on 5 January 1942 and returned to Australia on 23 May 1942. Made an Officer of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1967 for Services to Literature.