WW1 Australian Munitions Workers badge to a Swede working on aircraft in England

For sale - WW1 Australian Munitions workers badge, reverse marked ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE. STOKES & SONS MELBOURNE. 2529 which comes with copies of service record and photograph.

A rare chance to link a munition workers badge with a person, let alone find a photograph of him.

Olof (Olaf) Peterson was born in 1874 in Ryda, Socken, Sweden, he emigrated to Australia in 1892 and was working as a carpenter joiner in N.S.W.

During the Great war he volunteered for Munitions Work with the Department of Defence and was accepted. He departed Australia for England in June 1917 landing in August and was employed at the Newport Aircraft Co, Hendon as a joiner. He returned to Australia on 25/1/1920 and died in Granville N.S.W. in 1948

The Nieuport & General Aircraft Co. Ltd. was formed on 16 November 1916 to produce French Nieuport aircraft under licence and was based in England.