Photo from the State Library of Queensland
Queensland Mounted Infantry 1897
Image link https://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/391024.
William Glasgow represented the Wide Bay regiment at the Queens Jubilee in 1897.
Uniform Buttons
AMF button by A. Flavell, Melb
The quality of the map image is superior to many of the buttons made during WW1 and WW2. This button may date from 1933.
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 1st June 1933 page 819.
G.S.’ signifies ‘General Service’, ‘C.P.’ signifies Commonwealth Pattern (i think). For a gilt version, see:
Staff Corps of Cadets by Stokes & Sons Melb
King’s crown; up to 1952.
This is a gilt version. see also http://www.austbuttonhistory.com/9th-august-2020/
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