Colourpatch - Australian Military Insignia. Colour Patches, An Australian Army Tradition. Colour Patches Headquarters 1st Brigade [1001b] - HeadQuarters 1st BrigadeRevised patch with khaki overlockingVelcro backed55mm x 75mm. The Australian army's system of colour patches arose from the need to solve an immediate. As a result, many battalions found themselves wearing patches unrelated in shape or colour to those of their first AIF forebears. The Australian Army wore colour patches from 1915 to. The Australian colour patch system was discarded in 1950 in favour of the British Army system of. (Examples of the current series of colour patch can be found. Media in category 'Colour Patches of the Australian Army'. 5th Machine Gun Battalion AIF Unit Colour Patch.png 472 bytes. Australian Army; Color patches; Military uniforms of Australia. . 4118 Tel: 0458 902960 Email: [email protected] : Home; Featured Products; Authority to Sell; New Products; All Products. About this Site; History. Copyright © 2016 The Australian Military Patches Website. ![]() Unit Colour Patch Register - Australian Army. The original patches were designed in a simple manner that allowed for identification of a member's unit, division and battalion. Please click on the pictures below to view each series of Unit Colour Patches in the Australian Army. Army Colour Patches - www. The Australian Army wore colour patches from 1. In July, 1. 98. 7 it was decided to permit the wearing of colour patches again, on the puggaree of the hat khaki fur felt; the decision was influenced primarily by the need to foster the Army's heritage. Two series of Unit Colour Patches (UCP) are approved for the Australian Army: a. Series I are the patches of units of the 1st AIF and the whole Army from 1. These are worn by units which have established their lineage and similarity of role to those earlier units. ![]() A small number of these patches have been used as a base for Series II patches for organisational reasons, others as a basis of completing pattern gaps to provide continuing heritage; these patches are referred to as Series I (Extended). Series II, introduced in 1. Series I which indicated headquarters, corps and some functions. These are arranged as square base patches identifying Headquarters Australian Defence Force (Air Commander), Army Headquarters and the functional command headquarters. Smaller overlayed shapes in various colours identify uniquely non- corps units under command of those headquarters, and corps units respectively. These patches are worn by units which have not established lineage and similarity of role for a Series I patch. Entitlement to the wearing of a Series I colour patch is subject to substantial evidence being produced as to clear and direct lineage from a World War l or World War 2 headquarters, unit or independent sub- unit which had an approved colour patch, and a role similar to the present day unit. Granting of the entitlement must be shown to be a factor in significantly enhancing unit esprit- de- corps and morale. As of 1. June 2. 00. 9, more than 8. Series I colour patches have been approved for wear. The uniquely Australian system of colour patches may have been inspired through the South African War 1. British Army units wearing small cloth patches in colours or tartans appropriate to their regiment on the puggarees of their pith helmets. The Australian system however, was an extension of the system of small flags nine inches square allowed by Headquarters 1st Australian Division in 1. AIF Order No. 1. 0 issued in Melbourne on 5 September 1. Division's colour patches. Divisional Order No. Mena, Egypt on 6 March 1. Badges 5. 62. In order the better to distinguish the several units of the Division, coloured patches of cloth 1 & 1/4 inches wide by 2& 3/4 inches long will be worn on the sleeve one inch below the shoulder seam. Except in cases of Headquarters of Brigades and the Divisional Artillery, the Engineers and Army Medical Corps, badges will consist of two colours, the lower indicating the formation, the upper the unit etc. Light Horse (4th Light Horse) and Artillery badges will be divided diagonally, the others horizontally. Later in 1. 91. 5, 1st Division Standing Orders paragraph 3. The Headquarters 1st Brigade colour patch was a green horizontal rectangle, and its battalions (1, 2, 3 and 4) black, purple, brown and white over green divided horizontally. The same system applied to the 2nd Brigade, whose brigade colour was red, with battalions numbered 5 to 8, and to the 3rd Brigade whose brigade colour was light blue, with battalions numbered 9 to 1. Divisional engineers and the signals company wore a purple colour patch, the divisional 'train' (Army Service Corps) dark blue over white and medical corps chocolate. Later divisional unit colour patches were the pioneer battalion wearing a white patch with a purple centre, machine gun companies (later battalions) wearing a black patch with a yellow centre, ordnance dark blue with a red centre, pay corps blue with a gold centre and veterinary maroon. The divisional headquarters patch was black with a white centre. Machine gun units also wore 'crossed guns' in yellow cloth directly below their colour patch, and trench mortar batteries a grenade in blue worsted embroidery directly below the divisional artillery patch if medium mortars, below the brigade headquarters patch if light mortars. The 4th Brigade, raised separately and never part of the 1st Division, gained approval from Headquarters Australian and New Zealand Division in March 1. The Brigade colour was dark blue and the upper/battalion colours as for the 1st Division; because however, the black and purple of 1. Battalions over the Brigade dark blue base caused confusion with the Brigade Headquarters' patch, the upper colours for these battalions were changed to light blue and yellow respectively. The Brigade later conformed to the 1st Division method of wearing the patches at the head of the sleeves of jackets. As other divisions of the 1st AIF were formed, they were allocated distinctive divisional shapes - diamond for the 2nd, horizontal oval (sometimes described as ellipse) for the 3rd, circle for the 4th and vertical rectangle for the 5th. The 6th Division, partly formed in England in 1. The 4th Brigade retained its original rectangle patches although allotted to the 4th Division; other anomalies were the 1. Brigade of the 4th Division, which had a dark blue brigade colour with consequent adjustments to the colours of its first and second battalions (4. Brigade allotted to the 5th Division which had yellow as the brigade colour. The light horse brigades followed the horizontal rectangle shape, with the exception of the Headquarters (only) of the 4th Light Horse Brigade and the whole of the 5th Light Horse Brigade, which used a triangle shape. All colours being separated diagonally, brigade headquarters and brigade/lower colours were, for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Brigades respectively white, red, yellow and dark blue. Brigade also used red, but in the triangle patch. The upper/unit colours in each brigade were, for the regiments in seniority, light blue, green and black, and for the brigade machine gun squadrons, field ambulances and veterinary sections, respectively purple, chocolate and maroon. Nearly 3. 00 colour patches were authorised during World War 1, some initially by divisional orders, the majority later by AIF Orders; included were a number of colour patches later amended or cancelled. In 1. 92. 1, Military Order 2. The new organisation (CMF) being based on the AIF, authority has been granted to Citizen Forces to wear Regimental Colour Patches on the jacket, similar to those worn by units of corresponding designation of the AIF.(2) The above privilege has been accorded to the Citizen Forces, but ex- members of the AIF serving in Citizen Forces will wear in addition the colour badge (sic) (in miniature) of the unit with which they last served in the AIF. Citizen Force colour patch)Standing Orders for Clothing 1. Distinguishing Colour Patches'. Later authorities were Standing Orders for Clothing 1. Standing Orders for Dress 1. Standing Orders for Dress 1. Some 1. 80 colour patches, primarily those of the AIF, were depicted in the colour plate issued with the 1. Orders; included however were nine Permanent Troops, two Fortress Troops and eleven non- divisional unit colour patches, apart from the two cavalry and five infantry divisions. On the outbreak of World War 2 and the raising of a 2nd AIF, it appears that 2nd AIF units may have initially adopted the colour patches of their identically numbered or designated 1st AIF forbears, in the absence of any formal instructions. However, probably in April or May 1. AIF units and giving infantry battalions colour patches by shapes and upper and lower colours indicating the divisional, brigade and battalion seniority of their 2nd AIF grouping. This resulted in a significant number of battalions wearing colour patches unrelated to those of their 1st AIF forbears. For example, the 2/1. Battalion, at that time being the senior battalion of the 'third' brigade of the 'second' division of the 2nd AIF (the 7th Division), was allotted a diamond- shaped black over light blue patch on the grey background; the black over light blue diamond was the colour patch of 2. Battalion 1st AIF, while 1. Battalion 1st AIF wore a yellow over dark blue horizontal rectangle. There is considerable evidence of this instruction's impact in unit war diaries and official histories, however, no copy of the authority, believed to be an Army Headquarters (AHQ) Director of Ordnance Services instruction with colour plates, has yet been located in searches of Australian War Memorial and Australian Archives holdings of AHQ files of April- May 1. As a result of representations to members of Parliament by 1st AIF associations and the RSL, this anomaly was corrected in October- November 1. AHQ Director of Ordnance Services. The colour plates assumed to have been issued with the instruction would have depicted divisional- shaped grey background patches (6th horizontal rectangle, 7th diamond, 8th horizontal oval and 9th circle), with battalion colour patches conforming with those of the 1st AIF forbear superimposed. These battalion patches were half- size where the divisional and battalion patch shapes were different, and in full size yet showing a 1/4 inch grey background where the shapes were similar. Due to a significant variety of different shaped patches resulting from regroupings, the 9th Australian division in 1. General Routine Order (GRO) 2. T' patches which in effect also commemorated the major part played by the division in the Siege of Tobruk. These colour patches were illustrated, with two minor errors (2/2. Battalions), in Appendix 4 to 'To Benghazi' by Gavin Long (Australia in the War of 1. Series 1 (Army) Volume 1). By the end of 1. 94. World War 2, not including changes in colour patch by the addition of the 2nd AIF grey background by militia units transferring to the 2nd AIF.
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