- Owner
- Repatriation General Hospital Museum
- Region
- Adelaide
- Creator
- Unknown
- Measurements
- 144cm x 85cm
- Historical Period/Date
- 20th Century (1930-1969 Mid)/1945
- ID Number
- ESPO-009
- Classifications
- Appliqué,Banners,Stem Stitch,
Physical Description
Cream calico banner with a large royal blue central "V" surrounded by embroidered red signatures.There is a large triangular unit colour patch in grey, black and yellow in the top right corner. Text appliquéd in blue at the bottom of the banner "2/3 M G BN Unit".
Theme and Purpose
World War II. Fighting Forces Comforts Fund? Fundraiser Purpose was to raise money for war widows. People paid threepence or sixpence for an embroidered signature on the flag. Volunteers at the Repatriation General Hospital Museum offered the following information: "Many of the soldiers in this unit were prisoners of war in Java or lost in transport so the money raised was used to support the families of these soldiers". There is no supporting documentation. 2/3 MG BN Unit: 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion.
Signatures
Below are the names that have been transcribed from this object. Multiple instances of a name on one object is indicated by a bracketed number after the name. A name in bold appears on other objects. Click these names to see the other objects.
?itt, Margaret
Addison, Edith J
Ainsworth, Betty
Ainsworth, Colin
Ainsworth, Elsie
Alexander, H
Alexander, N
Allaidin, L D
Allanson, Beryl
Allanson, Margaret
Allonson, F J
Angus, Alex
Angus, Beth
Angus, Davey
Angus, Ethel
Angus, Joy
Angus, Lewis R
Angus, Rob
Argent, Gwen
Ashhurst, D T
Ashhurst, Ken
Ashhurst, Lorna
Ashhurst, Mildred L
Ashworth, J (L Cpl)
Baileys, Emily
Barker, Charles S
Barker, Florence
Barker, J Mckay
Barnes, J L
Barnes, O M
Barraclough, E W
Barrett, Victor?
Barter, G R
Bates, K J
Bates, Lorna
Beaney, Laurel
Beare, B A
Beare, Nina E
Beaumont, Bruce
Beaumont, Learmont
Beaumont, Mavis
Beerstecher, J B
Begg, I J
Bice, Dorothy
Birback, V
Birbeck, F
Birrchel, Sally
Black, Glenys
Black, Isabel
Black, Jocelyn
Black, Lavinia
Blackburn, Julie
Blackburn, M B
Blackburn, Rose
Blackburn, Rosemary
Blackburn, Ross
Blue, Elil H
Bonnin, A H
Bonnin, W
Bram, Susan
Bright, Mary
Brock, L A
Brocksopp, J A
Brocksopp, L J
Brooks, C A
Brooks, C C
Brooks, D G
Brooks, G G
Brooks, G V
Brooks, H M
Brooks, J A
Brooks, R R
Brownell, Mary S
Bull, Millicent
Bull, Reg
Bull, Yvonne
Burden, Jennifer
Burden, Louise
Burns, Eunice
Burns, Lola J
Button, C W (Sgt)
Calder, Maggie
Calder, Margaret W
Callinon, Mary J
Cane, Elaine
Carmichael, W J
Carr, Gwen H
Castle, M E
Catt, Ian C
Catt, Lionel
Catt, Rena M
Chapman, A E
Chapman, J H
Chapman, R M
Chipper, Doris
Chipper, R Elsdon (Sgt)
Clarke, Allan J
Clemons, M
Clemons, Pete Jr (2 Belhaven St Launceston Tasmania)
Clift, R
Clift, R M
Cluse, D
Cluse, R E
Collins, L M
Collins, Mary (Burnie Tasmania)
Connor, J L
Connor, M R
Cook, Laura
Coombe, Joan
Coombe, Mary
Crabe, Dick
Craig, L
Crisp, D M
Crossley, J R
Cutts, L A
Davis, Eva E
Davis, Flora
Deane, Marjorie
Devonshire, A
Devonshire, E M
Devonshire, E T
Devonshire, John Wynne
Devonshire, Molly
Devonshire, Shirley
Devonshire, W P
Dickson, A M
Dodson, Jean
Douglass, Helen
Dowell, Jack
Dunn, Joan
Dunn, W M
Edson, Olive
Edwards, Esme
Edwards, N
Edwards, P L
Effiott, Elizabeth
Effiott, Harry
Elliott, Ellen
Elliott, G
Elliott, Jean
Elliott, L O V
Elliott, Valma
Erwin, Lily
Evans, Bebe C
Evans, Daisy
Evans, M J H E
Everard, Nancy
Exton, E M
Farnham, E M
Farnham, J L
Farnham, W
Farnith, A?
Fielder, G
Finlayson, Garth H
Fould, E H I
Fox, Bob
Fox, Pat
Gardener, A A (Pte)
Gardiner, B C
Gardiner, Betty
Gardiner, E E
Gardiner, Ethel
Gardiner, O
Gardiner, V
Gardiner, W D
Gebhardt, M R
Gebhart, M
Gitsham, A J
Glover, John
Glover, John (2)
Goodall, R G
Goodheart, M G
Goodwin, C
Gouenlock, J
Gowan, R H
Gregg, V F
Gregory, E
Griff, N
Griff, Rose
Griffiths, A R
Grimwade, A L
Grimwade, C R
Grimwade, E L
Gunging, Muriel M
Gunter, S A
Hagerty, Eileen
Haines, Wendy
Hall, Lillian
Hann, A M
Hannigan, A G
Hannigan, L J
Hansen, Mary A
Harris, C V
Harris, H E
Harris, Paddy
Harvey, E E
Harvey, Jessie G
Harvis, Bill
Haskard, Mary
Haskard, Maud
Hawke, J E
Hawke, R L (2/2 aa 4 Bn)
Hawke, Vera
Hawksworth, E
Haymes, L J
Healey, K N A
Hearne, G
Heath, Joan
Hickman, C F
Hill, Dulcie V
Hills, H (Sgt)
Hills, H R
Hilton, M H
Hodson, W C
Hogg, R
Honeyman, Ena
Hooper, J L
Howard, Aubrey J
Hubrey, B (Pte)
Hughes, F C
Hugo, C
Huhon, B E
Humble, Dorothy (9 Todd Ave South Perth)
Hutton, Kathleen
Irvine, Lucy
Jackett, K
James, M C
Jarvis, Harvey
Johns, Audrey
Johnson, G
Johnson, K L
Johnson, R H
Jones, G A
Jones, J C
Jones, R D
Kaye, Geoff
Keaves, Marie
Keen, John D
Keen, T M
Kemble, E K
Kevin, E M
Kinane, Bernie (2/3rd)
Kinane, Martin (WA 2/3rd)
King, Barbara
Klan, Amy
Klan, Ivan
Kyrner, E R
Lammane, Adrian
Lathlion, D B
Lawson, Margaret
Lawson, Meridith
Lawson, Robert
Leanard, Peggy
Lemand, John
Liddiard, ?ytis
Liddiard, A
Lihou, Florence
Lihou, Ray
Little, E
Little, N
Lock, L
Lombert, (Pte)
Lynch, D C
Lynch, Hilda A
Macdonald, J G
Mackenzie, Jess
Marshall, W E
Mason, Alma
Mather, J
May, Olive
McCaffrey, Kath
McDonald, Alan
McDonald, Ivy
McGee, M
McInerny, M E
Mckenzie, Olive
McLerron, Pat
McNamara, J M
Mead, Clive
Mead, F
Meek, J
Mills, M Joyce
Minns, J E
Mitchell, Robert E
Morton, Mary
Motteran, C Joan
Motteran, M E
Muller, Olive N
Mumme, Lorna J
Mumme, W A
Nelson, Gertrude
Nelson, J E
Nelson, Norman
Nelson, Norman Snr
Nelson, Thana
Newcombe, Doris
Nicholls, M G
Norris, Olive
O'Brien, Dulcie P
Osmond, E
Padman, J
Page, Edith
Page, Jack
Paige, S W
Pall, K S
Palmer, H
Park, W D
Parker, Gwen
Pearce, J R (Sgt)
Pearson, Merv
Pellew, A
Pena, Grace
Penalurick, L
Phann, Nora
Phisk, M
Piesse, M C (2/3rd)
Polly, Myrtle?
Potter, Lorna
Price, H E
Price, Rodger G
Pudney, F F
Radford, S J
Raggatt, A A
Raggatt, L M
Rains, Sydney W
Ramford, G M
Raynor, B
Rechner, Coral
Reed, J H
Reed, Liela
Richards, C L
Rielly, N
Ringelsen, E
Ritchie, Joan
Ritchie, P R H J
Ritchie, R L
Roads, Olive
Robertson, Rodney (7/7 Bn)
Rosenberg, E
Russell, Grace
Rymill, L S
Saunders, H S S
Schlein, Rhonda M
Schmelgkopf, F
Schottelius, E L
Scott, R J
Scott, R S
Sedgman, J W
Selth, B J
Selth, G M
Seton, E M
Shea, Elsie
Shea, L C
Shepard, Anne
Sherwin, M E
Simons, Eileen
Simpson, E B
Simson, S
Sinnett, J
Slater, M B
Slow, Betty
Slow, Elma
Slow, G
Slow, H A
Smith, E L (Pte)
Smith, Eunice
Smith, G Alexander H
Smith, Gladys
Smith, L W Kay (Pte AIF)
Smith, R J
Smith, R L
Smith, Winnie
Sobey, Brian
Sobey, John
Stafford, Lorraine
Stafford, Robert
Standfield, R
Stanfield, C N
Stephens, John C
Stephens, L E
Stevens, Alice
Stevens, M J
Stone, Mary
Supple, R
Sutton, M E
Sweeney, Nora
Tapp, L H G
Theisnger, Thelma
Thiele, Oscar
Thompson, Ethel W (Longley Hobart Tasmania)
Thomson, Eric I
Thomson, Florence
Thorpe, W A
Tihou, R?
Tilley, M F
Tonkin, Sybil
Treleaven, A V
Trenwith, Joyce
Turner, G M
Turner, Hazel
Vallis, Florence
Vandersluys, Vera
Vercoe, Beverly
Vercoe, J T
Vercoe, Joan
Vercoe, W G
Wake, Garton
Wake, Gladys
Wake, Jess
Wakelin, L V
Walker, L J
Walloscheck, T E
Warne, Lesley
Warne, Mary
Wasley, H J
Wasley, M J
Wastell, Jim
Wastell, M C
Waye, M J
Waye, Mary
Wellbridge, N
Wellman, G A
Wheatley, J A
White, F E
Whitehouse, E
Wigley, Audrey
Wiles, Anne
Wiles, Beryl
Wiles, John
Williams, L T
Williams, Patty
Wilmshurst, Jay
Winch, Marjorie
Woods, Irene
Word, E M
Word, J T
Woudle, K