Description
Description: Queensland Patriot Fund enamel badge – World War One
Maker’s Name: Stokes and Sons, Melb
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Queensland Patriot Fund enamel badge – World War One. Complete with single pin.
The Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) was first formed in August 1916 from a number of individual state based organisations that had been created at the beginning of World War I to send comfort to the troops. Many local women’s groups formed early in the war to provide various ‘luxury items’ to supplement the Australian soldier’s army rations and personal kit. The Australian Comforts Fund quickly grew into a fundraising, collecting, sorting and distributing machine which rivalled the scope of the Red Cross. At the conclusion of World War I, the ACF officially dissolved.
This was issued by the Queensland based organisation that later became part of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) .
