Hat badge: Administrative and Instructional Staff Corps - Sergeant T Judd

General service 'Rising Sun' badge with a sterling silver scroll and words 'AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES' surmounted by a gilded brass tudor crown on a red enamel ground, with a semi-circle of gilded brass 'rays' above.

Associated with the service of Sergeant Thomas Judd. Judd was born at Cuxton, Kent (United Kingdom) in 1867, and served as a young man with the 1st Battalion, 'The Buffs' (Royal East Kent Regiment) in India, rising to the rank of sergeant. The battalion was sent to Malta in 1885 and subsequently proceeded to India. It took part in the Chitral campaign of 1895 and in operation on the North-West Frontier in 1897-1898. Judd later emigrated to Australia, and enlisted for service in the Boer War in 1901 as Private 990 with the Victorian Mounted Rifles (5th Victorian Contingent). He was then selected as a member of the coronation contingent for Edward VII in 1902, to London. After his return to Australia, Judd continued to serve in the Ballarat Militia as a medical orderly, and at the outbreak of war in August 1914, despite his age of 47, enlisted in the AIF, becoming Private 143 with 2 Field Ambulance. Wounded at Gallipoli in 1915, he returned to Australia and was discharged in May 1917. He continued to serve as a medical orderly in Australia, and was finally discharged from military service with 5 Light Horse Field Ambulance at Ballarat in 1920, aged 53. This pattern of badge was worn by other ranks in the Administrative and Instructional Corps between 1903 and 1912.