AUKLAND INFANTRY BATTALION COLLAR BADGE
Regimental New Zealand Infantry 3rd (Auckland) Company collar badge.
Mailed arm holding sheaf of corn over ribbon displaying motto.
Motto: SISIT PRUDENTIA (Ever prudent)
One of a pair that would have been originally issued.
Donor, Esma/Esme Berryman (born 1923) was the daughter of Alice Matilda Markey (nee Chitty) and William James Markey, so the badge is likely to have some connection with a member of one of these two local Toodyay families.
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The Auckland Infantry Regiment in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force was one of four regional infantry groupings (along with Canterbury, Otago and Wellington) which made up the bulk of New Zealand’s infantry forces during the First World War.
It served as the Auckland Battalion at Gallipoli in 1915 before being divided into 1st Auckland Infantry Battalion and 2nd Auckland Infantry Battalion in March 1916. An additional battalion, 3rd Auckland Infantry Battalion, existed between March 1917 and February 1918. The regiment served on the Western Front from 1916 until 1918.
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