Cravat : Private R Walker, 2 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment

Narrow rectangular royal blue satin cravat with an oval black felt patch. The design of the patch has been created using pieces of coloured felt and bullion thread. It features a Queen's crown surmounting a pair of crossed swords with a kangaroo in the foreground. 'DUTY FIRST ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT' has been embroidered in a red felt scroll beneath this. '2 .R.A.R.' has also been embroidered in bullion thread along the bottom of the badge. On either side of the kangaroo and swords there is a decorative bullion thread leaf design.

Associated with the service of 51915 Private Ron Walker who served in 2 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR) during the Korean War. Walker enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in July 1951 in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 17 years. He undertook Recruit training at Guilford, WA, and advanced infantry training at Puckapunyal, Victoria. He was then posted to the Machine-gun platoon, Support Company of 2 RAR as a Corporal No. 1 gunner on a Vickers medium machine gun. He sailed with the battalion on the 'New Australia' and arrived in Korea in March 1953. He joined Sergeant Brian Cooper's section at 'Vickers Village', a platoon position of four guns, and was positioned in the machine-gun bunker on Hill 111 during the battle of Hook on 24-26 July 1953, just prior to the war's end. Walker returned to Australia in April 1954.