The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Emu feather plume gathered at the base with a stitched wrap of cotton. Worn as part of Light Horse headdress.
Emu feather plume worn by Captain Stanley Thomas Parkes while fighting with the Australian Light Horse at Gallipoli and the Middle East. Stanley Parkes joined the Australian Imperial Force on October 3, 1914. Joining the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance as a private.
Stanley Parkes served seven months on the Gallipoli Peninsula, where he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. After Gallipoli he continued to serve with the 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance in the Sinai and Palestine. He was awarded a Mention in Dispatches on July 6, 1917 while serving as a warrant officer.
Commissioned as an honorary lieutenant on July 22, 1917 and transferred to the 8th Sanitary Section where he continued to serve in Palestine and Syria for the remainder of the war. He was returned to Australia in 1919 and made quarter master and given and honorary captaincy.
Horizontally aligned rectangular patch for 3 Light Horse Field Ambulance, divided diagonally bottom left to top right brown over yellow. Associated with Quarter Master Honorary Captain Stanley Thoma
Emu feather plume gathered at the base with a stitched wrap of cotton. Worn as part of Light Horse headdress. Associated with Honorary Captain Stanley T Parkes, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance. Capt
Australian Army khaki fur felt slouch hat complete with khaki woollen puggaree, brown leather chin-strap and oxidised brass General Service Badge. There is a pair of small brown eyelets in both sides
Emu feather plume gathered at the base with a stitched wrap of cotton. Worn as part of Light Horse headdress. Associated with Honorary Captain Stanley T Parkes, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance. Capt
Horizontally aligned rectangular patch for 3 Light Horse Field Ambulance, divided diagonally bottom left to top right brown over yellow. Associated with Quarter Master Honorary Captain Stanley Thoma
Emu feather plume gathered at the base and secured with a piece of black leatherette. Associated with the service of Charles Culzean Busby, born 20 March 1898 in Cassilis, New South Wales. Busby was
Australian Army Light Horse officer's full emu plume on tanned skin. Charles Arblaster was born at Pennyroyal, Victoria on 27 February 1895. He attended the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and gra
Khaki fur felt slouch hat with three rows of stitching around the brim, a brown leather sweatband, nine pleat hand-folded plain weave light brown cotton puggaree, emu plume, and oxidised copper 'Risin
Khaki fur felt slouch hat with brim bound with khaki cotton grosgrain ribbon, a khaki polished cotton five-fold puggaree and a pair of ventilation eyelets on either side of the crown. The left brim tu
