Colour patch badge : Corporal F A Elworthy, 1 Light Horse Regiment, AIF

Enamelled unit association badge in the form of a 1 Australian Light Horse Regiment colour patch (blue over white divided diagonally) with central 'A' indicating service at Gallipoli. The badge is made of white metal, and has a hinged pin clasp on the reverse. The white section is of solid opaque enamel, while the blue area is of translucent glass, through which the pebbled metal surface underneath may be seen.

Frederick Arthur Elworthy was born at Gundagai, NSW in 1891, and was a professional journalist prior to the First World War. He was one of the first to enlist in August 1914, becoming number 300 in B Squadron, 1 Light Horse Regiment. The regiment sailed from Sydney aboard the transport A.16 'Star of Victoria', in October 1914, arriving in Egypt in December of the same year. 1 Light Horse Regiment landed on Gallipoli to serve as dismounted troops in May 1915, and Elworthy was seriously wounded in August. His wounds may have been received during the regiment's ill-fated 7 August attack from Pope's Hill up Dead Man's Ridge to the Turkish positions at the Bloody Angle and the Chessboard, where 150 of the 200 men involved became casualties. Evacuated to Egypt, he was repatriated to Australia and discharged in December 1915.