Discharged Returned Soldier badge : Private W F Lindsay, 13 Battalion, AIF

Brass Discharged Returned Soldier badge showing a Rising Sun badge and 'A.I.F.' within a circle bearing the words 'RETURNED FROM ACTIVE SERVICE ISSUED BY THE DEPT. OF DEFENCE'. The manufacturer's name is in small raised letters on the reverse, together with an impressed serial number '159875'.

Awarded to 6072 Private William Frank Lindsay who served with the 19th Reinforcements to 13 Battalion, AIF. Frank Lindsay was a 23 year old railway night officer in Sydney when he enlisted in the AIF on 7 March 1916. After training in Australia and Britain he joined his battalion in Belgium at the end of September 1917. On 17 October 1917 he was wounded by poison gas and was evacuated to the War Hospital at Reading, England. He was discharged from hospital two months later and after leave and further training rejoined his battalion in April 1918. Lindsay survived the war and returned to Australia on 2 June 1919. His health never recovered fully after he was gassed and he died unmarried in 1935.