Places | |
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Accession Number | REL31623 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Badge |
Physical description | Oxidised brass |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia |
Date made | Unknown |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Rising Sun hat badge : Corporal A K Boyden, 2/12 Field Company, AIF
Description
Oxidised brass 'Australian Commonwealth Military Forces' Rising Sun hat badge, with two lugs soldered to the reverse.
History / Summary
Arthur Keeling Boyden was born in Melbourne, Victoria, in April 1904. He enlisted in the AIF on 19 June 1940, becoming Corporal NX32792 with 2/12 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. Captured by the Japanese at the end of the Malayan campaign, he was held between 1942 and 1945 at Changi POW camp, and various camps on the Burma-Thailand Railway. Boyden was repatriated to Australia and discharged from the AIF on 8 February 1946. Post-war, he became sales manager for North Shore Gas, and died on 30 December 1975.
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