Badge

Circular badge: printed paper between tin base and celluloid cover. The design depicts crossed cricket bats marked with 'Wounded' and 'Soldiers'. The image incorporates stumps, a ball and a cricket green. Marked with 'Cricketers' Tribute' 'XMAS 1915'. This and other associated badges are a rich source of evidence on the material and cultural history of fundraising and sporting organisations in Australia. The symbols, colours and mottoes used on the badges themselves also express ideas about the values and identity that Australians held in the early to mid-twentieth century, particularly during wartime.