World War One Australia State Boys Memorial 1919 Pinback Button Badge - scarce

 World War One Australian Pinback Button Badge

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

This is a 1919 issued South Australia State Boys Memorial 1919 Badge

World War One South Australia State Boys Memorial 1919 "That's one of our boys"  Pinback Button Badge -  Very Scarce

Description

WWI commemorative circular plastic-coated pressed tinplate metal badge with a celluloid face and a pin attachment on the reverse. "Circular State Boys' Memorial badge, depicting 2 children looking up at statue of soldier on a memorial, in a country street, in colours of blue, brown, red & white. Inscriptions: 'STATE BOYS' MEMORIAL' (in brown at top); ''THAT'S ONE OF OUR BOYS' / 1919' (at bottom). "  ( as described by the National Museum of Australia - as they have one in their collection )

Inscription:

STATE BOYS MEMORIAL 1919 / THAT'S ONE OF OUR BOYS

Maker
Atkinson & Co

Place made
Australia: Adelaide, South Australia

Date made
c 1919

Size

approximately 32 mm round ( 1 1/4 inches )

Associated organisation
State Boys' Memorial

Summary:

South Australia STATE BOYS MEMORIAL 1919 / THAT'S ONE OF OUR BOYS badge made in 1919.

This pin back button badge was produced to raise funds for a memorial to those Southern Australian men who served in World War 1.  A newspaper article of the times refers to such a fund-raising event, a button day, being held on August 22 , 1919 to commemorate the 286 South Australian 'State boys' who served, including the 44 who gave their lives.
If sufficient funds were raised, the State Boys' Memorial committee planned to use them to build a recreation room for boys at the Industrial School in Edwardstown