Pair of fundraising badges : Soldiers Home, Myrtle Bank, South Australia

Place Oceania: Australia, South Australia
Accession Number REL34059
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Badge
Physical description Celluloid, Paper, Tin
Maker A W Patrick
Place made Australia: South Australia, Adelaide
Date made c 1918-1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Pair of round badges with pin mounting, each displaying a brown monochrome image of a large suburban house, with the legend 'SOLDIERS HOME / MYRTLE BANK SA'.

History / Summary

Fundraising badges sold in Adelaide every Friday, on ‘Badge Day’ from 1916 to 1919 by Mrs Annie Roberts of St Peters, grandmother of Barry John Roberts (see REL34054, 34055, 34056). The badges were sold in support of homes for repatriated soldiers, and specifically the War Veterans Home still extant on the Myrtle Bank site in Adelaide, which served as a Repatriation Hospital during the First World War from March 1917.