The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bronze St John Ambulance Association badge. The round badge has a Maltese cross in the centre within a circlet bearing the words 'THE ST JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION'. Four trefoil shapes are attached at even spaces around the circle, each bearing a flowering plant. The top trefoil has an attached suspension ring. The reverse of the badge is engraved '177045 DORIS GREY'. Two matching bronze bars, each with trefoil ends with the same flower, accompany the badge. One bears the year '1915' in raised numbers, the other '1916'. Each is engraved on the back '177045'. The bars are designed to be attached, in date order, to the top of the brooch.
Associated with the service of Miss Doris H Grey, a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) of the Australian Red Cross between 1915 and 1919. The squad to which she was attached was based at Marrickville in Sydney. In 1919, in the course of her work as a VAD, Doris met and fell in love with Private Colin James Irwin, a recently returned serviceman who had lost his leg as a result of wounds received during the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. They were married at Petersham in 1920.
Ornately engraved and cut silver medal with an attached central medallion in rose gold showing the showing the Maltese cross of St John Ambulance Brigade. A suspension ring is attached to the top of t
Nine carat gold medal showing a Maltese cross of St John Ambulance Brigade within a circlet, both in rose gold, within a gold wreath. A suspension ring is attached to the top of the medal. The circlet
Improvised identity disc made from a George V halfpenny. The reverse has been filed smooth and them impressed 'C.J. IRWIN. 1 CYCLISTS. 383 A.I.F. P'. A section of leather thong is threaded through a h
Small bronze fundraising badge, in aid of the Italian Red Cross, in the shape of a map of Italy bearing an enamelled red cross in the centre with a raised date '1918' above it. The map is suspended by
Printed cotton souvenir cushion cover with a cream cotton fringe, most of which is missing. The souvenir is printed in colour on a cream ground and shows in the centre the pyramids against a yellow sk
Black enamelled white metal badge showing the Maltese cross of St John Ambulance Association within a circlet bearing the words 'THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION', set on a ribbon scroll bearing the
Black enamelled white metal badge showing the Maltese cross of St John Ambulance Association within a circlet bearing the words 'THE ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION', set on a ribbon scroll bearing the
Nine carat gold medal showing a Maltese cross of St John Ambulance Brigade within a circlet, both in rose gold, within a gold wreath. A suspension ring is attached to the top of the medal. The circlet
Ornately engraved and cut silver medal with an attached central medallion in rose gold showing the showing the Maltese cross of St John Ambulance Brigade. A suspension ring is attached to the top of t
Small bronze fundraising badge, in aid of the Italian Red Cross, in the shape of a map of Italy bearing an enamelled red cross in the centre with a raised date '1918' above it. The map is suspended by
Sterling silver Voluntary Aid Detachment long service badge with two bars. Badge has suspender bar with crown at the top, 'V.A.D.' in straight panel beneath which is a curved 'AUSTRALIA'. The bars are
Sterling silver medal suspended from a bar with trefoil ends and an embossed date '1912'. Round medal has four trefoil arms. In the centre a St John of Jerusalem cross with the words 'ST JOHN AMBULANC
