Female Relatives Badge : Mrs E M Tulloch

Female Relative's badge with a blue enamelled oval around the voided letters 'AIF'. The oval contains the words 'ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE TO WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. An enameled scroll beneath this contains the words 'FOR DUTY DONE'. The badge is surmounted by a King's Crown. Stamped on the reverse is the serial number '14180' , the maker's details 'WM MCLEAN & CO / MELB' AND 'STG.SIL'. Beneath the badge are three attached bars, which, together with the badge, indicates that the recipient had four relatives serving overseas. A serial number is impressed on the reverse of each bar. The uppermost is impressed '132383', the middle '132384' and the bottom '132385'.

Eliza Mary Tulloch (Tullock), nee Dixon, had five sons: William Hudson, born 1885; Robert Edward, born 1888; George Henry, born 1891; John, born 1893 (died as an infant); and Harold John born 1894. After her husband, John Bullen Rockliff's death at Perth, WA on 24 July 1897, Eliza married Eubulus Robert Tulloch in 1898. They had a daughter Elizabeth Gladys Tulloch, born 1899. All four of Mrs Tulloch's adult sons enlisted in the AIF during the First World War. William Rockliff was awarded the Military Cross and was Mentioned in Despatches on multiple occasions. Robert Rockliff died of wounds inflicted at Gallipoli and is buried at Pieta Military Cemetery at Malta. George Rockliff survived the war, as did Harold Rockliff, although Harold died a few years later in 1920, of war related causes. This badge was issued to Mrs Tulloch to wear during the war so that people would recognise that she had four sons serving overseas.