Place | Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Sydney Harbour |
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Accession Number | AWM2019.132.1 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Heraldry |
Physical description | Linen paper |
Maker |
Chipps, Roy |
Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Date made | 1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
'Welcome Black Jack and the Greyhounds' banner: Mr Roy Chipps
Linen-backed paper banner reading 'WELCOME BLACK JACK and THE GREYHOUNDS' and featuring coloured pencil drawings of a red ensign and the 2/30th Battalion colour patch. The 2/30th Battalion was commanded by Frederick 'Black Jack' Galleghan and was known as Galleghan's Greyhounds.
The banner was made by architect Roy Chipps for to welcome the arrival of the troopship SS Esperance Bay carrying former prisoners of war (POWs) of the 2/30th Battalion returning from Singapore. Chipps and his two daughters, Marjorie and Dorothy, displayed the banner while aboard a crowded motor launch that came alongside the troopship as it docked at Woolloomoloo in Sydney Harbour on 9 October 1945.
Roy Chipps' son, NX24742 Private Ronald Lawrence Chipps was a member of the 2/30th Battalion and had been a POW. He was suffering from beri-beri and had returned to Sydney 11 days earlier aboard the hospital ship Oranje.