Place | Oceania: Australia |
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Accession Number | REL30703 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Badge |
Physical description | Metal, Silk |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia |
Date made | c 1919 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Mothers and Widows Badge : Mrs Jennett Trevillian
Description
Mothers and Widows badge with impressed serial number on reverse upper bar '13494'. Badge takes the form of a black machine embroidered ribbon, showing, in yellow, white and red, sprigs of wattle, a 'Rising Sun' badge and 'FOR AUSTRALIA'. The ribbon is suspended between two white metal bars, the upper one with a brooch fitting and the lower one with a gold star, indicating one relative killed.
History / Summary
Issued to the mother of George Leslie Trevillian after he was killed on Gallipoli.155 Corporal G L Trevillian served with 6 Battalion AIF. He enlisted on 17 August 1914 and was killed in action during the second Battle of Krithia, on Gallipoli, on 8 May 1915. His body was not recovered and he is commemorated on the Cape Helles Memorial.
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