Bty and Regt Plaques

The topic of plaques for 2/10 Bty has come up this week. This discussion led to an exploration of the different plaques that have been in use by the units that led to 2/10 Bty 9 Regt. Following are examples of those we can find. Many of the Bty plaques featured a mascot.

2 Fd Regt

2 Fd Regt preceded 2/15 Fd Regt. Here’s a plaque from 3 Bty at Landcox St, Brighton, from Peter Kama-Shattock.

3 Fd Bty, 2 Fd Regt plaque

15 Fd Regt

15 Fd Regt preceded 2/15 Fd Regt. Here’s a regimental plaque from then.

15 Fd Regt plaque

1970 … 15 Field Regt. .. when H.Q. and 22 Bty. were based at Dandenong and it’s sister 23 Bty, was based at Frankston – Before merging with 2 Field Regt. Which, occurred in 1975 creating 2/15 Field Regiment.

Ian Webley

2/15 Fd Regt

There were unofficial plaques for both 2 and 23 Btys (there may have been one or more for 3 Bty and HQ Bty, but I’m not aware of anything).

There was a generic Regt plaque.

2/15 Fd Regt plaque

Here’s the 2/15 plaque as presented to Dave Mills.

2 Bty

The 2 Bty plaque featured the mascot Gunner Secundus.

2 Fd Bty plaque

The 2 Bty Plaque I had a lot to do with, organising the art work and sourcing the production in conjunction with the PMC of the Gunners Mess at the time.  The mess actually sponsored an albino snake at the Melbourne zoo with a copy of the plaque on “Gunner Secunds’” display.  You will also note two versions of the snake scale, black on white & white of black.

LtCol Peter Rowley
Alternate 2 Fd Bty plaque

23 Bty

23 Bty picked up the nickname (or called themselves) “The Rebels” so for a long time they used the Rebel Flag (US Confederate flag) as an emblem, and this early plaque shows this.

23 Bty Rebels plaque
23 Bty Rebels plaque

The Bty had a longstanding relationship with Frankston and chose the dolphin as the mascot.

23 Fd Bty plaque

23 Bty had the dolphin mascot that I believe was a Col Swindels (BQMS) design. The dolphin was selected as the Frankston FC are the Dolphins and this emblem celebrated 23 Bty’s connection with the City of Frankston over many years.

Maj Stuart Pigdon

10 Mdm Regt

I expect there were probably many plaques from 10 Mdm and subunits.

Here’s a 10 Mdm Regt plaque from Sgt Helen Janner

10 Mdm Regt plaque

37 Mdm Bty

The only plaque I’ve seen for 37 Bty is as follows.

37 Bty plaque

2/10 Mdm Regt and 2/10 Fd Regt

There were some plaques produced for the batteries of 2/10 Mdm (later 2/10 Field). The following two plaques were for 2/10 Mdm and 2/10 Fd (Sgts Mess) from SGT Helen Janner.

2/10 Mdm Regt plaque
2/10 Fd Regt Sgts Mess plaque

22 Bty

I’m aware of two plaques. The first features a M2A2 and the badge.

Earlier 22 Fd Bty plaque

A later plaque featured Ned Kelly as a bushranger with the name “Bushrangers”.

22 Fd Bty Bushrangers plaque

Comment on the “Bushrangers” significance.

The Bushrangers plaque was by BSM WO2 Trifford. He was looking for a Victorian reference for the battery given it’s location. There is also a version with a white V behind the bushranger figure which I have. I recall being involved in the search for a new plaque at the time and it was well before 2006 at the old 22 Bty.

Takis Diakoumis

Here’s the other version of that plaque.

22 Fd Bty “Bushrangers” plaque with V variation

38 Mdm Bty

The following plaque is from SGT Helen Janner and is similar to the 22 Fd Bty plaque featuring a gun (M198) and badge.

38 Mdm Bty plaque

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  1. The Bushrangers plaque was by BSM WO2 Trifford (I’ve probably spelt that wrong). He was looking for a Victorian reference for the battery given it’s location. There is also a version with a white V behind the bushranger figure which I have. I recall being involved in the search for a new plaque at the time and it was well before 2006 at the old 22 Bty.

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  2. The 2 Bty Plaque that Pete Rowley is referring to was a winning design via a 2 Bty Plaque competition which was awarded to Bdr Gary Donaldson then PMC of the 2 Bty Gnr’s Mess Dandenong. If my memory serves me correct.

    Dave Mills.

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  3. Dave, my memory suggests Carol Wallace completed the Artwork. It was then me to photocopy a number of different colour version, given to

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