GOLD CAP-BADGE
TOO HOT TO HANDLE PROPERTY OE GENERAL A Middle East souvenir which even Diggers considered; too “hot” to show off at home was handled to a Sydney reporter. It is a gold cap-badge on a scarlet band. Its owner was air Australian general. A soldier of the Ninth Division, who returned from the Middle East, said: “Several of us were on leave in Cairo, and aftei’ a few armies we went to a flash hotel for dinner. “I saw the general’s cap on a table but did' not touch it. “When we were on our way back to our camp, to my horror one of
the party produced the cap-badge and band. He was sober by this time and scared Stiff, so he tried! to make me take the souvenir, which I declined. “We shifted camp next day and had no opportunity to return it, and the badge was passed from man to man, all of whom got the wind up after a while. Eventually the badge came back to me z and) I hid it in a pair of socks.
“I would/ like it returned to the owner, although I do not know to which general it belongs.”'
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3275, 14 June 1943, Page 6
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201GOLD CAP-BADGE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3275, 14 June 1943, Page 6
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