The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 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.
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 a
[Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles Training, 1950s]
Commissioned by the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles and ANGAU Association as part of the Australian War Memorial’s Plaque Dedication Program. This plaque was dedicated on 1 August 2000 at a ceremony hel
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
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
Black Watch or 'Government sett' tartan kilt of wool twill in colours black, green and blue. Kilt pleats are hand stitched. Waist edge is bound with bottle green wool twill tape, machine stitched to u
