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'Brick Day, Soldiers' Home' fundraising button

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c. 1916

Overview

Circular fundraising badge or button sold during World War One to support the 'Brick Day' appeal between 1916-1919.
It features a colour illustration of four red bricks on a dark blue background, with the words 'Brick Day' in gold lettering above and 'Soldiers' Home' in white below,and a narrow golden ring inside the border.
The reverse has a metal back with a void into which a metal pin is secured for attachment.

Historical information

According to the Australian War Memorial, these fundraising buttons were sold in Adelaide every Friday, on ‘Badge Day’ from 1916 to 1919. They were sold in support of homes for repatriated soldiers, and specifically the War Veterans Home still extant on the Myrtle Bank site in Adelaide, which served as a Repatriation Hospital during the First World War from March 1917.

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Registration number

cwa-org-119-RoW00343

Item type

Themes

Social History
War and Conflict
War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Width

22 mm

Height or length

22 mm

Depth

3 mm

Inscriptions and markings

"BRICK DAY
SOLDIERS' HOME"

Keywords

Badges & Buttons

History - Social

Place made

Adelaide
South Australia
Australia

Year

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