Description
Description: Australian Comforts Fund – Lapel Badge – World War One
Maker’s Name: Stokes and Sons, Melb
Condition: Near Mint Plus
Comments: Australian Comforts Fund – Lapel Badge – World War One. Approx diameter 27mm.
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.
