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Originally Posted by fairlie63
To be quite honest I don't think you will find it in the book. I do list an unidentified one that is red/yellow/mid green (No 1686) and is in the JA Ryan Collection at the AWM.
I also have a photograph which appears to have a similar patch to No 1686, being worn on a KD shirt of all things, by a member of a gun-mounting party at Newcastle in early 1942. Impossible of course to identify the colours but in the same format as your photo.
Is it a British photo or post card, if so it might be an unidentified Australforce patch.
Keith
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To a Pom, the rather bilious colour combination of red/yellow/green is unique to the Second World War RE Chemical Warfare Groups. I believe the same colours were used in the Fist World War. I'm sure there was an Australian Chemical Warfare establishment in the Second World War. Mike
http://www.ww2places.qld.gov.au/places/?id=730