Anzac Day marching banner : 23 Infantry Brigade, 8 Division

White vinyl marching banner printed on one side in black, red, purple and grey. The top is printed in black '23RD INFANTRY BRIGADE 8TH DIVISION'. Beneath are representations of the colour patches of the three infantry battalions in the brigade: a black over red diamond on an oval grey ground with black lettering beneath: '2/21 BATTALION "GULL FORCE" AMBON LAHA'; a purple over red diamond on an oval grey ground with black lettering beneath '2/22 BATTALION "LARK FORCE" RABAUL'; and a white over red horizontally aligned oval on a grey oval ground with black lettering beneath '2/40 BATTALION "SPARROW FORCE" TIMOR'.

This 23 Infantry Brigade, 8 Division banner was used at an ANZAC Day march in 2003 or 2004. The units represented on the banner are the 2/21 Battalion known as 'Gull Force', 2/22 Battalion known as 'Lark Force' and 2/40 Battalion known as 'Sparrow Force'. These units suffered a particularly high death rate and there were relatively few members left to march, even immediately following the war. The banner was made in response to the dwindling number of marchers in each of these battalions. Each battalion association decided they would march together as a brigade and the banner was duly created. it was used only once as the grandchildren of association members expressed an interest in marching in their grandfathers' places, and the original battalion groups were resurrected.