The original of the Official Badge of the RAN was designed and adopted for the Cenotaph, in Hobart, TAS. The Design derived from emblems used on a Navy Office booklet, ‘Advice to Personnel’, ‘The Navy List’, and rubbings from a badge on the glass doors of ‘N’-block of Navy offices in Coventry Street, Melbourne, VIC.
Australian Naval History on 23 August 1949
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