Place | Oceania: Pacific Islands |
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Accession Number | REL28385 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Heraldry |
Physical description | Felt |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | c 1939-1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Blue felt pennant with colour patches and badges: C A Davey, RAA
Blue felt pennant with the rising sun badge of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces and the letters 'R.A.A.' Surrounding the rising sun badge are colour patches, pins and badges. These are the colour patches of 5 Division Artillery, 1921-39; Royal Australian Artillery, 9 Australian Division, 1940-42, lapel pins featuring the profiles of Field Marshal Montgomery and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill; cloth Army Signallers badge, c 1940-45; enamelled lapel pin with the colour patch of 2/4 Australian Machine Gun Battalion, 1941-43; the colour patch of the Australian Corps of Signals, 1944-48; A corporal's rank chevron; the colour patch of the First Naval Bombardment group, 1944-45 and the colour patch of 16 Australian Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, 1942-43.
Associated with WX35218 Clarence Albert Davey, Royal Australian Artillery. Davey served as a signaller, serving at various times in his service career with an anti tank regiment, a shore fire control party and the First Naval Bombardment Group.