Australian cloth patches

[Bob Lyons]

Here are a few Australian patches associated with the Anzac Class of frigate,

First up the crest of HMAS Anzac...

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

Unofficial from HMAS Warramunga

[Bob Lyons]

Unofficial for the 76 mm gun crews

[Bob Lyons]

I will dig out a few more if there is some interest, meanwhile here is an Aussie RAN white ensign.

Best wishes

Bob

[Tiger-pie]

Here is my brassard that I was issued when I was in East Timor on HMAS Success, nicknamed by us "The Steath Tanker" as we got no recognition from the press. As it was it worked in our favour, the SAS used us as a mobile platform to conduct recon missions into West Timor near Suai and beach "sweeps" at Ocussi Enclave.

[Bob Lyons]

Nice brassard Johnsy, my eldest son served with 103 Sig Squadron in East Timor, and rubs it in to me that when he came back to Australia he was flown back in a Luftwaffe aircraft. (as I have a few Luftwaffe items in the collection, I have never flown in a Lw aircraft!).

Here ia a brassard that was worn by a cousin attached to the Commonwealth games last year.

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

One that I wore way back in 1972, for Medium Tank Trials, we did the communications for the portion of the trials that were based out of Sellheim camp near Charters Towers, North Queensland. The types of tanks involved were the Leopard 1, and the US M60, with the Leopard being accepted into the Australian Army as a result.

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

And for a view of an 'Anzac' class of frigate (based on the German Meko 200 design), here is a photo of HMAS Toowoomba.

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

I know, not exactly a cloth patch, but a good Aussie recognition image, the steel red painted kangaroo on the stacks of 'Toowoomba'.

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

Dug out a few more patches, so here goes...

This one is for 107 Field Battery Royal Australian Artillery.

[Bob Lyons]

Navy chopper patch....

[Bob Lyons]

HMAS Tobruk communications crew patch....

[Bob Lyons]

Hmm, these two wouldn't load up a couple of minutes back, here is the last for now, crest for HMAS Warramunga.

Cheers

Bob

[dsgrant]

Lovely..

The RAN Crests sure out do the old armys efforts

[Chris Boonzaier]

"With sparrow and sprite"

Interesting... so far the only thing that I have liked with sprite is Canadian Club, maybe bourbon and sprite at a push...

What is sparrow and how much does it cost a bottle?

[Riley1965]

GREAT set of patches!!! The pictures of the ships are FANTASTIC!!!

Doc

[Tiger-pie]

Not a patch as such, my tally band from Success.

[Tiger-pie]

An assortment of badges and emphera.

[Tiger-pie]

My ID discs, the coin is a keepsake from the Great Wall of China, we did a ship visit to Shanghai and our Ship Liason Officer organised flights and accomadation for us Beijing

[Tiger-pie]

Discs.

Edited March 16, 2007 by Tiger-pie

[Tiger-pie]

SAS sniper or sharp-shooter cloth patch.

[Bob Lyons]

Hi Johnsy,

Interesting as I thought the old marksman's badge was no longer used, good to see it still being worn. For some reason I thought you were army, your bits and pieces told the full story, if you ever get to the Williamstown dockyard, look me up!

Bob

[Bob Lyons]

And dragged out of the back of the cupboard, my old service dress jacket.....

[Tiger-pie]

Hi Johnsy,

Interesting as I thought the old marksman's badge was no longer used, good to see it still being worn. For some reason I thought you were army, your bits and pieces told the full story, if you ever get to the Williamstown dockyard, look me up!

Bob

Unlikely Bob, unless I change over to Anzacs (we get "streamed" into different classes of ship). If I do a visit to Melbourne though, I will give you a bell. My tally band is cloth, though I guess that my ID dics were pushing the boundry of the definition of cloth. I do have an old fibre set, thats nearly cloth, isn't it?

Despite the rivalries the navy has worked hand in hand with the army in recent years. Since East Timor that relationship has been very close and should increase when we get the new FAT ships to replace HMA Ships Kanimbla and Manoora. Tobruk has a soldier detatchment permanently posted to it also, I will get a phot of their brassard to post here. Now if the army would only learn to tell when they intend to buy new tanks so that we actually have ships that can carry them...

Regards;

Johnsy

[Bob Lyons]

Just picked up another lot of half wings, still don't know what half of 'em are though, will start searching....