Melbourne University Regiment hat badge - current issue

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Melbourne University Regiment hat badge - current issue

Note the green felt background.



The Melbourne University Regiment (or MUR) is an infantry unit in the Australian Army Reserve. It has a depot at Grattan Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.

MUR traces its origins to 1884 as D company, 4th Battalion of the Victorian Rifles, at which time it was known as the University Company. General Sir John Monash was a Colour Sergeant of this unit before taking a commission in the colonial and later Commonwealth militia.

The unit became the Melbourne University Rifles in 1910, providing military training for members of Melbourne University and the public schools of Melbourne and Geelong.

As a University Regiment the unit did not deploy with the AIF in either of the world wars and as such, it carries no Battle Honours on its Colours. However, many officers and soldiers of AIF units had received their initial military training or commissions with the University Rifles.

In the post war structure of the Australian Army the University Rifles was reformed as the present Melbourne University Regiment, officially raised on April 1948.Prominent former members of MUR include:

* Sir Robert Menzies, the former Australian Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal Party
* Sir Ninian Stephen, the fomer judge of the High Court and Governor-General of Australia
* Barry Humphries, the comedian
* Andrew Peacock, the former Minister for the Army, Liberal Opposition Leader and Australian Ambassador to the US

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Same in copper

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Here is a version worn between 1948 and 1953.

Note the King's Crown.