Hi Pete,
Correct on both accounts, the first badge is of 1st Independent Infantry Brigade Group, and the second is Western Command, the 'dying duck' in the words of those who wore it.
About the only cloth badge reference book to Australian material at the moment is Australian Army Badges, Cloth Insignia of the Army in Australia, 1860-1993, by J K Cossum, 1997. It is not in colour unfortunately.
ISBN 0 949530 14 X
Keith
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