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Originally Posted by mooke07
Hi all,
A bloke goes to work for the day and you chaps uncover so much information! Fantastic. Read his service record and what a story indeed. The writing is pretty hard to read on the original Archive card so I had the rank wrong, his service record has his red and blue chevrons noted.
Will have to read again, so Engineers wore their own badges overseas and not a Rising Sun.
Much of interest and special thanks to Mick for the service record, cheers Dean.
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Hi Dean,
The issue collar badge was the small oxidised copper rising sun. It was the practice, particularly amongst the earlier contingents for individuals to wear the CMF collar badges of the same corps with which they were serving - it is pretty common for instance to see Aust Field Artillery, Aust Engineers and AAMC collars worn, plus the artillery sergeants' sleeve gun was worn as a cap badge. I think a recent photo on ebay was of an AASC bloke with corps collars.
There were a number of orders issued by HQ AIF, and other formation headquarters attempting to stop the practice but like the corps numerals on the shoulder straps it no doubt persisted throughout the war.