Colour Patch : Siege Battery Amunition Columns, Royal Australian Artillery

Accession Number REL26965
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Colour Patch
Physical description Wool flannel
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 1918-1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Upright red artillery shell shaped colour patch, for Siege Battery Ammunition Columns, Royal Australian Artillery, with a horizontal dark blue band across the centre with a red zigzag line sewn across it.

History / Summary

Although listed on some privately issued colour patch charts, no official authority for this patch has been found other than mention of it in the Official Records AWM25 Series. It is thought to have been introduced after the Armistice in November 1918.