Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

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10185 Jack Reed striking a dapper pose

The colour patches which identified units in the AIF were designed to show what division or service they belonged to, and also, in the case of infantry units, their brigade and the sequence of the Battalion in that Brigade. The shape of a colour patch indicated the division or service - 1st Division - horizontal rectangle split horizontally 2nd Division - diamond shape split horizontally 3rd Division - horizontal ellipse 4th Division - circle split horizontally 5th Division - vertical rectangle split vertically. The lower colour denoted the brigade's sequence in the Division. Usually (but not always!) these colours were: Green - first brigade in the division Red - second Light Blue - third The 4th Brigade, originally in the 1st Division , had a dark Blue lower half. Its reallocation to the 4th Division after Gallipoli threw both the brigade / battalion numbering sequence (the most logical at any time in the history of the ADF) and the colour patch structure into disarray! In the first AIF there were four infantry battalions to each brigade, and the upper section (or LHS in the case of the 5th Division) of the colour patch identified each one. Usually (but not always!) these colours were: Black - first Purple - second Brown - third White - fourth Thus every battalion had a unique colour patch. Other Arms and Service Corps had variations but those attached to the five divisions generally incorporated the shape of their parent Ddvision. Source: Text taken from The 27th Battalion Centenary: The Historical Record of the 27th Battalions 13th August 1877-1977 and Programme of Centenary Celebrations, Unley SA, 1977 Notes: 1. Strictly speaking there was no such thing as the 'First AIF'. The term is often used unofficially to distinguish the Australian Imperial Force of the First World War from the Second AIF raised to fight in World War 2. 2. The colour patch scheme was first introduced into the AIF in March 1915, just in time for the initial Gallipoli landings. The 2nd Division received its patches in August 1915, and gradually the scheme was expanded to include the whole AIF.

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Unexploded WW1 artillery shells exposed by the grading of the road adjacent to Courcelette Cemetery. Vast numbers of these are recovered every year from farmland in Flanders and France.

The four WW1 Veterans who returned to France in July 1998: (left to right) Eric Abraham, Howard Pope, Charles Mance and Ted Smout at the funeral of Private Russell Bosisto. They are wearing the French Croix de Guerre awarded to them earlier at the Australian National War Memorial Villers Bretonneaux

The Firing Party from 10/27th Battalion Royal South Australia Regiment at the re-interment of Private Russell Bosisto's remains at Courcellette Cemetery on 3rd July 1998. The Windmill, near to which Russell Bosisto's remains were recovered and the objective of the attack in which he was killed, lies atop the ridge on the horizon.

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SA Aviation Museum - RAAF Mount Gambier and No. 2 Air Observers School - History

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AE2 in Fittzroy Dock Cockatoo Island Sydney Harbour

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