Victory badge : Miss H Menzies

Place Oceania: Australia
Accession Number REL31212
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Badge
Physical description Brass; Enamel
Maker Stokes & Sons, Melbourne
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made c 1940-1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Brass badge in the shape of a blue enamelled 'V'. Across the 'V' is a red enamelled bar with the morse code symbols for 'V' picked out in white.

History / Summary

Collected by schoolgirl Heather Menzies, the daughter of Robert Menzies. Menzies was Prime Minister during the war years 1939-1941.