Hi Rob,
Can't tell from the photo, doesn't look to be a title or anything on the slip on. However I note that reinforcements to the AIF often wore slip ons like this, sometimes in multiple colours.
I have wondered if the colour related to their reinforcement draft, i.e., reinforcements to the 43rd Battalion for instance might have worn a silk slip-on in brown and sky blue to denote their posting. Possibly for the morale point of view but also with the amount of blokes floating around these camps there might have been a need for the camp staffs and provosts to identify who was on which draft.
Sometimes the colours were worn under the shoulder title.
Keith
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