The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Jungle green cotton Australian Army bush hat with blackened brass ventilation eyelets set around the crown. The hat is reversible, and is currently displayed inside-out. A strip of pale yellow cotton tape has been stitched around the crown to form a series of camouflage loops. These loops duplicate those carried in jungle green fabric on what would normally be the outside crown, but is now inside the hat. Written upside-down on the yellow tape in black felt marker are the letters 'B O C' (presumably for Officer Commanding B Company) and faintly on the crown, the word 'Ducker'. Inside the hat is a 65 mm 'X' shape cut from blue fabric and stitched to the left hand crown.
The hat was orginally worn with blue 'X' Company marker on the outside, aligned to the centre front. Later in the tour a decision was made to use the yellow coloured band only, yellow indicating 4 RAR, and hats were reversed to show this, leaving Company markers on the inside .
Standard pattern jungle green cotton Australian Army bush hat worn by Major Claude Henry Ducker, MC, while serving as a company commander with 4 Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment during the Confrontation in Borneo, 1964-66. The outside front of the crown features a sewn on blue cotton tape 'X' which Ducker devised as a company identification mark for B Company of 4 RAR. The inside of the hat has a light yellow coloured band sewn around the crown, which was used as an identifying mark for the battalion.
Jungle green cotton Australian Army bush hat with brass ventilation eyelets set around the crown. The hat is reversible and is currently inside-out. A strip of red cotton tape has been stitched around
Cotton bush hat in Disruptive Pattern Camouflage Uniform fabric. A green label sewn inside the hat and printed with maker's details has been marked in felt pen 'P.M. SANDERS'. Unknown.
Mark II (Afghanistan pattern) Disruptive Pattern Desert Uniform (DPDU) bush hat. The hat has a wide circular brim and an oval shaped crown which is worn fore and aft. A band stitched around the outsid
Mark III (Iraq pattern) Disruptive Pattern Desert Uniform (DPDU) bush hat. The hat has a wide circular brim and an oval shaped crown which is worn fore and aft. A band stitched around the outside of t
Disruptive Pattern Desert Uniform (DPDU) wide brimmed bush hat. The hat has a wide circular brim and an oval shaped crown which is worn fore and aft. A band stitched around the outside of the crown at
Bush hat in Mark I (yellow based) Disruptive Pattern Desert Uniform (DPDU) fabric used by a Special Air Service Regiment trooper in Afghanistan. The hat has been field modified by the addition of an a
