Discharged Returned Soldier Badge: Acting Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant J M Hislop, 36 Heavy Artillery Group, AIF

Circular brass badge surmounted by a King's crown. In the centre is the AIF rising sun emblem surrounded by the text 'ISSUED BY DEPT. OF DEFENCE RETURNED FROM ACTIVE SERVICE'. The reverse has been impressed with the number '95349' and the maker's details 'AUSTRAL ENGV C PERTH'. A small circular piece of cardboard cut from a 1936 calender has been pushed through the lugs onto the back of the badge.

James Marsden Hislop was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1891 but was living in Neutral Bay, Sydney with his mother at the time of the First World War. He was a 25 year old commercial traveller when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 1 September 1916 and was assigned the number 31110. With the rank of Gunner, but acting as a Corporal, he sailed for France with 12 Reinforcements of 5 Artillery Brigade aboard RMS Orontes on 19 December 1916. Once in France he served with 35 Siege Battery and also as Acting Quarter Master-Sergeant with 36 Heavy Artillery Group. He returned to Australia on 12 September 1919.