Anzac Day marching banner of 2/10 Australian Field Ambulance Association

Blue synthetic Anzac Day marching banner of 2/10 Australian Field Ambulance with white fringe along top and bottom edges. Guide ropes approximately 2 metres long extend from each of the top corners. The banner is screen printed with the colour patches of 8th Division Australian Army Medical Corps (brown oval with grey border) and 8th Division Australian Army Service Corps (blue over white oval with grey border). The screen printed words '2/10 AUSTRALIAN FIELD AMBULANCE 8th DIVISION MALAYA' are in white above the colour patches, and below in white are the names 'MALAYA', 'SINGAPORE', 'NEW BRITAIN', 'JAPAN', 'BORNEO', 'THAILAND' and 'BURMA'.

2/10 Australian Field Ambulance was formed in the Newcastle and Northern Rivers regions of New South Wales, and became part of 27 Infantry Brigade, 8th Australian Division. After training at Liverpool, Dubbo and Bathurst, the unit embarked for overseas service in July 1941, under the command of NX34665 Lieutenant Colonel E McArthur Sheppard. On 15 August, in company with other units of the 8th Division, it arrived in Singapore and began to move up onto the Malay peninsula. Following the Japanese invasion in December 1941, the 2/10 Field Ambulance provided medical support to 2/30 Infantry Battalion's ambush at Gemas, and various parts of the unit were then involved in the withdrawal via Segamat, Yong Peng and Ayer Hitam through Kluang and thence on to Singapore itself, where the surrender took place on 15-16 February 1942. The men of the unit were then split up in Prisoner of War camps and working parties through such places as Thailand, Burma, Japan and Borneo, many members being killed in the Sandakan death marches. In early 1941, a small party from the unit, known as: '2/10 Field Ambulance detached' was sent to Rabaul as part of 'Lark Force'. This group, numbering only about twenty men, were nearly all killed by the Japanese in the infamous 'Tol Massacre' in February 1942. This unit association banner was produced about 1992, to replace an older item which had become worn out. The new banner was carried at Anzac Day services until there was an insufficient number of members left to march with it.