Hi MartinRF,
Nice lot of photos. However they are not PMF personnel. It was the practice for many of the AIF enlistees to wear the collar badges of their previous militia unit, or to obtain those collar badges from the trade. There are many of gunners, AASC and AAMC around.
It was common for instance for gunners to wear the artillery senior NCOs gun as a cap badge and AFA collars, and wasn't restricted just to the first contingents but appears to persist through the war. It was however against regulations and there were a number of AIF Orders published stipulating that only the 'rising suns' were to be worn.
Keith
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