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Busselton Historical Society > Records

17 National Service Battalion cloth patch

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c. 1960 - 1970

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Overview

A dark blue curved cloth patch with the number 17 and the words National Service across the top and underneath the words in the middle Battalion. A white sewn line surrounds this following the curve of the badge

Historical information

The Campbell Barracks Swanbourne was the location for the National Service Training for the Australian Army built in 1957 Site history: battles/wars Vietnam,Borneo,Malaya,Irag,Afghanistan.

A 17 National Service Battalion cloth patch is an Australian military insignia worn on the battledress uniform by national servicemen training in Western Australia between 1951 and 1960. It was used to identify the wearer as part of the 17th National Service Training Battalion (17 NST Bn), one of the ten training battalions raised to handle the influx of national servicemen during that era

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2019.196

Item type

Badges

Themes

Material

Cloth

Width

11.1000 cm

Height or length

3.5000 cm

Inscriptions and markings

"17 National Service Battalion"

Contextual information

The '17' denotes the National Service Training that took part at Swanbourne, Western Australia.

Keywords

Badges-military

Place made

Australia

Year

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Last modified

Thursday, 30 April, 2026

Completeness

100

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