World War One Australia Army Nurses Day 1919 Pinback Button Badge - very rare

 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 1919 World War One issued Australia  Army Nurses Day 1919 fund raising Badge

World War I  1919  "ARMY NURSES DAY"  of Australia 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. This fund raising badge has a white background featuring a wreath with Red Crosses at the North - South - East - West positions. In the center of the wreath is a shield with the inscription "ARMY NURSES DAY 1919" inside. Atop the shield is a World War 1 Army ambulance.

Inscription:

ARMY NURSES DAY 1919

Maker
A W Patrick

Place made
Australia: South Australia, Adelaide

Date made
c 1919

Size

approximately 32 mm round ( 1 1/4 inches )

Summary:

Australian Army Nurses Day was celebrated on October 3 1919  to honor those angels of mercy who crossed the ocean with the Australian expeditionary forces during the Great War, and who, shared in their hardships.