The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Heart shaped perspex sweetheart brooch suspended from a thick perspex bar with a pin fastening attached to the back. The suspension bar has an aluminium plate attached to it which has been engraved 'TARAKAN'. The pendant below the bar has two aluminium heart shaped plates superimposed over one another. The first plate is marked 'TO BETH FROM JOHN', the second has an image of a palm tree. Threaded to the pin at the back are three 125 mm lengths of ribbon in red, white and blue.
This sweetheart brooch was bought in Borneo by NX123176 Staff Sergeant John Arnold Whelen for his wife, Elizabeth Whelen (nee McClure) whom he had married in 1943. Whelen was born in Cardiff, Wales in February 1914 and enlisted in Canberra, ACT on 30 April 1941. He served with both the 2 Australian Field Company and 1 Australian Corps Troops, Royal Australian Engineers and was discharged on 20 December 1945.
Canvas map folder/case with two external flap pockets with leather straps and metal buckles on each side. There are also three buckels to attach to another item. On the inside of the case is a plastic
Triangular brooch suspended from a bar with a pin back fastening. The triangle forms a frame for a miniature colour patch of 1 Australian Corps Troops of the Royal Australian Engineers. This is a purp
White cardboard box containing a hinged tin box. Inside this box is a piece of wedding cake. Printed on the outside of cardboard box is 'THE CUPID/ WEDDING CAKE BOX', surrounded by two cupids, three b
Triangular brooch suspended from a bar with a pin back fastening. The triangle forms a frame for a miniature colour patch of 1 Australian Corps Troops of the Royal Australian Engineers. This is a purp
Sweetheart brooch made from a melted purple toothbrush handle with an engraved silver plated brass plate attached to the front. The brooch has a bar with a pin enclosure on the reverse attached to the
Sweetheart brooch with a gold painted RAAF eagle and crown set into a perspex disk. The back of the disk has been painted cream. The pin from the brooch has broken off. The paint in the back of the di
A perspex double-heart brooch with an aluminium disk engraved with 'Solomon Islands' and a beach scene with palm trees. On the back of the badge is a brooch pin fastening and a safety chain, also with
Rectangular perspex brooch with bevelled edges inset with a silver plate inscribed 'MOTHER' from which is suspended, via a fine chain, a heart shaped pendant with bevelled border inset with an silver
Rectangular sweetheart brooch divided diagonally and enamelled with red over blue. A pin fastening is attached to the back. Unknown
