The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The colours bear the Battle Honours Rabaul, Wau, South-West Pacific 1942-1943.
The Colours were originally presented to the Battalion by His Honour, Colonel D O Hay, CBE DSC Administrator of Papua and New Guinea. They were laid up at the War Memorial following the disbandment of the Battalion on ANZAC Day 1974.
Embroidered and appliqued silk. Colours of the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles. The Colours bear the Battle Honours Rabaul, Wau, South-West Pacific 1942-1943. The Colours were originally presented
The Administrator of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea and Honoary Colonel of the Pacific Islands Regiment, Brig. Sir Donald Mackinnon Cleland, Cbe., visited the 2nd Battalion, P.I.R. at Wewak and Van
Queen's Colour of dark bottle green, plain weave silk. In the upper left canton is a double-sided Union Jack made from separate strips of white, blue and red silk. In the lower half of the Colour are
First Battalion The Pacific Islands Regiment Trooping the Colour to celebrate the regimental Birthday at Taurama Barracks Port Moresby, on March 11 1966. The parade was reviewed by his Honour the Admi
Single sided Colour made from two pieces of cream silk, satin weave fabric joined with a single seam 28-31cm below upper edge. The machine stitched seam joins two selvedges together. The upper edge of
Khaki woollen crocheted scarf with a fringe at each end. Width 16cm (width is uneven and although the number of repeats per row should be six, this is not always the case); length (including fringe) 1
