The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Gold metal security pass lapel badge for the Sydney firm C & J Munitions, showing a Vickers Mark II Special tank with the number '21' impressed on the turret. A blue enamel oval on the centre of the badge reads 'C & J MUNITIONS PRODUCTION'. The reverse has a brooch pin fastening and the manufacturer's details 'ANGUS & COOTE JEWELLERS'.
This security pass was issued to Joseph Godfrey Kitchener by the Sydney munitions firm C & J Munitions during the Second World War.
Kitchener, from Lane Cove in Sydney, had been declared medically unfit for war service. He was assigned to C & J Munitions, where he worked as a carpenter.
This pass is the first that was issued to Kitchener. He was issued with another, number 137, after he had mislaid this one, which he later found and retained.
Gold metal security pass lapel badge for the Sydney firm C & J Munitions, showing a Vickers Mark II Special tank with the number '137' impressed on the turret. A blue enamel oval on the centre of the
Oval blue enameled badge the inscription around the edge 'COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA' and 'MUNITIONS ESTABLISHMENT'. In the centre 'NO' and stamped 'N84' on a brass panel. The reverse has a brooch pin
Silver Female Relative's Badge with blue enamelled oval around the voided letters 'AIF' The oval contains the words 'ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE TO WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. An enamelled scroll beneath thi
Circular silver badge edged by a wreath and surmounted by a King's crown. In the centre is a map of Australia surrounded by another wreath and the words 'TO THE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. Suspended below th
Circular brass badge surmounted by a King's crown. In the centre is the AIF rising sun emblem surrounded by the text 'ISSUED BY DEPT. OF DEFENCE RETURNED FROM ACTIVE SERVICE'. The reverse has been imp
Small button badge with pin fastening. The badge has a photographic portrait of Private C J Crook in peaked cap and uniform. Photograph of 4562 Private Cecil James Crook, a miner from Adamstown, New
