The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Japanese national flag with separately sewn in hinomaru (red disc). There are numerous autographs written in black ink as well as printed red seals. These are all written in Chinese. The signatures in a radial pattern around the hinomaru are all by students of Yaoguantun Primary School. There are additional signatures by a chief of police and a schools inspector. The seals are those of these last two individuals and of the primary school itself. The flag appears to have been presented either to a Chinese national working for the Japanese army or to a teacher of Japanese at the school.
Souvenired by NX169542 Corporal Reginald Frederick Sheather while serving with 2/4 Infantry Battalion in New Guinea. Sheather was born at Summer Hill, NSW in February 1920. He enlisted on 24 May 1943 and was discharged on 31 March 1945.
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag with many small Japanese characters, in radial pattern, drawn on one side only. Apart from the traditional wish for long-lasting good fortune in war and th
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag. Cotton flag has a separately inset central red cotton disc and a pair of cotton tapes at each end of the hoist. There are numerous slogans and autographs
White silk 'good luck' flag with a printed red hinomaru and numerous hand-written black ink inscriptions and signatures in Japanese. The inscriptions do not give the original Japanese recipient's name
Japanese soldier's national flag with characters in black ink translating, 'To Mr Kawashima Minoru, Wishing you long-lasting good fortune in war, from all of your friends.' There are no personal signa
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag featuring numerous signatures in black ink. Two red seals of the Yasaka Shrine, probably the famous shrine in Kyoto are also printed onto the flag. Apart f
Silk Japanese 'good luck' flag or yosegaki hinomaru, with senninbari, or 1000 lucky stitches in red (normally sewn on a separate belt of 1000 stitches) taking the place of the printed or sewn central