The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Khaki fur felt slouch hat. The hat has a set of three plastic covered brass eyelets on either side and the left side has a brass stud fixed in the centre for securing the left brim to the crown. There is a small circular hole in the brim where it has torn away from the stud . Below the hole is a dark mark and two pin holes which indicate where the Rising Sun badge was worn. This badge, along with the sweatband and puggaree have been removed.
Slouch hat worn by SX11407 Captain Stewart Gordon Nottage. Capt Nottage was born in Walkerville, South Australia in June 1905 and enlisted in the army on 23 February 1941. He served with L Heavy Battery, Royal Australian Artillery at Rabaul on New Britain and was taken prisoner in January 1942. He was sent to Japan and was held in the Zentsuji prisoner of war camp on the island of Shikoku. On his arrival the Japanese guards removed the badge, puggaree and sweatband from the hat. Zentsuji was originally considered a model camp maintained by the Japanese for propaganda purposes and occasionally open for Red Cross inspections. Conditions worsened as the war progressed and in June 1944 the camp was broken up. Nottage was moved to another camp at Nisi Asi-Betu on Hokkaido island. At the end of the war Nottage returned to Australia in HMS Formidable around October 1945 and was discharged on 8 February 1946.
Australian fur felt slouch hat with a khaki cotton pugaree and gilded brass 'Rising Sun' badge. The left brim of the hat has been pinned to the side of the crown by the badge. Four small ventilor hole
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Worn and stained khaki fur felt slouch hat with a leather sweat band, and a hat band made from a length of khaki wool puggaree. The crown has split and been roughly repaired with stitching inside befo
Australian Military Forces khaki felt slouch hat, with the rising sun badge. The hat is constructed from a single panel of press shaped animal fur felt. The central oval shaped crown has straight side
Khaki fur felt slouch hat with six pleat cotton puggaree bearing the woollen cloth patch of 27 Infantry Brigade in the form of a triangle (originally blue but now faded to khaki) with an inner inverte
Australian Army slouch hat complete with woollen khaki puggaree, adjustable leather chinstrap and oxidised brass Rising Sun badge. This slouch hat was placed on the coffin during the ceremony of the
