World War I 1917 Australian Red Cross Dieu Defend Le Droit Pinback Button Badge for Sale

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World War I 1917 Australian Red Cross Dieu Defend Le Droit Pinback Button Badge For Sale

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World War I 1917 Australian Red Cross Dieu Defend Le Droit Pinback Button Badge:
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World War One Australian Pinback Button Badge

AUSTRALIA World War One Tin Lapel Political Patriotic Pin Back Button Badge very scarce - almost 100 years old

This is a September 1917 issuedAustralian Red Cross \"Dieu Defend Le Droit\" ( French for \'God Defends The Right\' ) Fundraising Badge associated with the Australian Red Cross Society

World War One Australia Red Cross Dieu Defend Le Droit September 1917 Pinback Button Badge - Very commemorative circular plastic-coated pressed tinplate metal badge with a celluloid face and a pin attachment on the reverse. \"Circular Red Cross badge, depicting flags of many nations grouped around Red Cross symbol, above yellow banner, all against white background. Inscriptions: \'DIEU DEFEND LE DROIT\' (in black in
banner); \'SEPTEMBER 1917\' (in black below banner). \" ( as described by the National Museum of Australia - as they have one in their collection DEFEND LE DROIT / SEPTEMBER 1917

Maker
A W. Patrick

Place made
Australia: North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Date made
c 1917

Size

approximately 32 mm round ( 1 1/4 inches )

Summary:

Australian Red Cross Society fund raising badge made in 1917.

This is the fifth button in the series, “The Way of the Red Cross in the Great War”. The badge series consists of pin back buttons depicting the progress of the wounded soldier from the ambulance , to the hospital train , to the hospital ship , then to the Red Cross Hospital.