Badge No. 52330 issued to Colin McNeill, No.5771, of Camperdown, 14th Battalion. Part of the Kevin John Herdman, No.397661, collection. See Cat No. 5924P for details of his service.Circular brass badge with King's crown at top. Centre features a Rising Sun over the letters A.I.F. The rear has two lugs for fixing to clothing. Lettering around edge of badge reads 'ISSUED BY DEPT OF DEFENCE, RETURNED FROM ACTIVE SERVICE'.Stamped on back of badge:'52330'. Makers mark: 'STOKES & SON, MELB.'kevin john herdman, colin mcneill, badge returned from active service, ww1

John EDYE (1944- ) John Edye trained in London at Harrow School of Art in the 1970s, and worked with Peter Dick in Yorkshire and Colin Pearson in Aylesford, Kent before returning to Australia to head the Sturt Pottery at Mittagong from 1974 to early 1978. At Sturt, his trainees included Piers Laverty, Wim Boot, Will Castle, Ruth Elder, Colin McNeill, Penelope Carr, Patrick Forman and Malcolm Campbell. Edye introduced them to salt-glazing, a technique at that time not widely used by studio potters. After leaving Sturt, he established the Little Forest Pottery at Yerrinbool in the Southern Highlands of NSW with Penelope Carr, who moved to Hazelbrook to set up her own pottery in 1983. Edye ran his pottery on a production scale for many years, making reduced and salt glazed stoneware and tutoring part time at East Sydney Technical College. Recently he has been working in Egypt as a technical advisor to an aid project, and he was a speaker at the Australian Ceramics Triennale 09. His works are marked with an impressed 'JE' and/or with the three-lobed tree emblem of Little Forest Pottery. John Edye was a visiting lecturer to the Gippsland Centre of Arts and Design (GCAD).Salt Glazed BowlTwo Stamps on basejohn edye, ceramics, jan feder memorial ceramics collection, gippsland