This souvenir badge table is a remarkable relic of the collective wartime experiences of members of the same family, 9010 Driver Cedric Pines, 33899 Driver Frederick Pines, 646 Private Reginald Pines, Staff Nurse Stella Pines and 1351 Private Martin Pines.
Serving first as a trooper with the NSW-raised 6th Light Horse Regiment, Martin Pines saw action in Sinai and Palestine, having taken part in the defence of the Suez Canal, and in the battles of Romani, Katia and first and second Gaza. Pine’s subsequent service with No. 1 Australian Light Car Patrol from October 1917 is directly relevant to the Anzac Memorial’s Lewis Gun buttress figure that is depicted from this unit.
The table gives an opportunity to examine the practice of wartime souveniring, and the ways in which such relics became commonplace in the family homes of the inter-war period.
The table is exhibited in the temporary exhibition 1919: A Time To Mourn, A Time To Hope.