Slouch hat : Corporal G Binns, 1 Machine Gun Battalion, AIF

Australian First World War fur felt slouch hat with plain woollen band and oxidized brass 'Rising Sun' badge. The left hand brim of the hat has been pinned to the side of the crown by the badge. Six small ventilor holes in the crown are reinforced with brown plastic eyelets. The brown leather chinstrap is missing a buckle, and is connected at one end by a short length of twine. The name 'BINNS' is written in blue ink inside the left hand crown. The brown leather headband is impressed 'UNION 7 1/4'.

Gordon Binns was born in 1899, and began his compulsory cadet service in March 1913. In February 1917, aged 18, he enlisted in the AIF, becoming number 712 in the 13th reinforcements to 2 Machine Gun Company. After sailing to England on the 'Suevic', he was sent in March 1918 to reinforce 6 Infantry Battalion, but almost immediately transferred back to 1 Machine Gun (MG) Battalion, of which 2 MG Company was a part. Binns was wounded in action on 10 August 1918 when his unit was supporting the Australian attack on Lihons, and spent over a month in hospital. Upon release, he was again transferred, this time to the Australian Provost Corps, where he served out the remainder of the war. Gordon Binns returned to Australia in 1919. He died in 1976.

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