ANZAC Day marching banner : Australian Army Veterinary Corps

Vertically aligned maroon felt marching banner backed with pale red cotton twill. The front carries white felt appliqué lettering : 'A.A. VET. CORPS/ A-I-F/ EGYPT/ FRANCE/ 1914-18'. The top of the banner is attached to a gold painted pole with pointed finials, and decorated with cream polished cotton cords and tassels. A separate cord across the top of the banner is intended to be attached to a carrying pole. The curved bottom of the banner is edged with a cream polished cotton fringe. The maroon colour is a reference to the Veterinary Corps' distinguishing colour patch.

In the early 1930s the commissioned officers of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps (AAVC) presented this banner to the AIF Association of the Army Veterinary Association (AVA). Its members carried it in each Anzac Day march in Sydney until 1969. By then the Association had only twenty-five members, all men in their in their seventies and eighties, of whom only fifteen were able to march. After this march it was decided that the AVA should keep the banner 'for safekeeping as a lasting memorial to the men of the AAVC who had served in the AIF.' The banner was transferred to the Australian War Memorial in 2009.

The AAVC's primary function was to treat and monitor the welfare of horses, and train farriers. During the First World War they also cared for mules, donkeys and camels, as well as messenger pigeons and dogs lent by the British army to the AIF. In the second World war they were responsible for horses in Australia and New Guinea, and the pigeons used by the Signal Service.

Formed in 1909 the AAVC was disbanded in 1946.