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Subiaco Museum > Records

BADGE: V.A.D, FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT WITH RED CROSS

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c. 1940

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Military and Wartime Collection

Overview

Round metal Voluntary Aid Detachment badge with blue enamel border with 'FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT' on it. Inside the white enamel circle a red cross. Badge attached to small blue narrow rod with V.A.D. printed. The other side, a ringed pin. Bears impressed '579'.

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cwa-org-43-1985.1636.1

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Material

Keywords

Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)

Photographed 2023

Year

Statement of significance

historical importance, badge of local V.A.D. Detachment. Numbered badges were issued to individuals but the ledgers for these records are missing.

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