The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Silver and blue enamel Female Relatives badge with four bars. The badge is marked on the reverse 'STOKES & SONS MELB STG. SIL.' in raised letters and is impressed with the number '111967'. The bars (from top to bottom) are impressed with the numbers '99723', '99721', '99722' and '50657'.
The Female Relatives Badge was issued to the wife and/or mother, or to the nearest female relative of, soldiers, nurses and masseurs who had left Australia for active service abroad. A bar was suspended below the badge was issued for each additional son/daughter serving. This badge was the property of Mrs Eleonora Mary Eedy (nee Hallowes) of Botany, NSW, and recognises the service of her husband and four sons. Mrs Eedy's husband, 2249 Private William Ferrier Eedy served with 2 Remount Unit. Her sons were 1732 Gunner Peter Ferrier Eedy, 3 Army Brigade Australian Field Artillery; 3316 Lance Corporal George William Eedy, 14 Australian Infantry Battalion; 1540 Gunner Ronald Frederick Eedy, 3 Australian Field Artillery Brigade - killed in action at Passchendaele on 22 October 1917; and 3403 Private Neil Arthur (Matthew) Eedy, Australian Army Medical Corps.
Black silk ribbon embroidered with the Rising Sun badge, two sprigs of Wattle and the words 'FOR AUSTRALIA', suspended between white metal bars. The lower bar has a single gilded seven-pointed star at
Small hand beaded bag with carrying strap. The bag, in white beads, shows a rampant lion in blue beads on each side beneath Turkish characters for the date '1336', (Mohammedan calendar, which would eq
Black silk ribbon embroidered with the Rising Sun badge, two sprigs of Wattle and the words 'FOR AUSTRALIA', suspended between white metal bars. The lower bar has a single gilded seven-pointed star at
Female Relative's badge with a blue enamelled oval around the voided letters 'AIF'. The oval contains the words 'ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE TO WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. An enamelled scroll beneath this cont
Silver Female Relative's Badge with two bars. The badge is formed by a blue enamelled oval around the voided letters 'AIF'. The oval contains the words 'ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE TO WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA
Female Relative's badge with a blue enamelled oval around the voided letters 'AIF'. The oval contains the words 'ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE TO WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. An enameled scroll beneath this conta
Circular silver badge edged by a wreath and surmounted by a King's crown. In the centre is a map of Australia surrounded by another wreath and the words 'TO THE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. Suspended below th
Female Relative's badge with a blue enamelled oval around the voided letters 'AIF'. The oval contains the words 'ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE TO WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. An enamelled scroll beneath this cont
