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Originally Posted by magpie
Yes the lugs are brass frank so perhaps you're right with your answer, i knew the RAAF was formed a few years after the RAF and assumed wrongly that perhaps AFC May have merged if that's the right word with the RFC not that I know anything about it as I'm pretty sure that I've seen pictures of Australian air men with RFC badges and again assumed that the link was in the striped R & F in the RAAF badges again wrongly  so perhaps it's canadian, the only thing I know is it doesn't seem to be a bog standard british RFC. |
Australia’s eight Australian Flying Corps (AFC) squadrons were part of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and were attached to larger British Royal Flying Corps / Royal Air Force formations.
In January 1920, the AFC was replaced by the Australian Air Corps, which in turn became the Australian Air Force on 31 March 1921 with the King’s consent to become the Royal Australian Air Force on 13 August 1921.