Fighting Forces Comforts Fund Certificate
2025.3
FFCF of SA Certificate of Service
Name/Title
Fighting Forces Comforts Fund CertificateEntry/Object ID
2025.3Description
A certificate issued by the Fighting Forces Comforts Fund in South Australia Inc. Rectangular, with a brown banner at the top, with two badges at each lower corner. The first being the badge of the FFCF, the second the A.C.F. The text is surrounded by a brown frame, at the base of which is a British flag on the left and an Australian flag on the right. The years 1939 and 1945 appear either side of the flags.Use
This certificate was awarded to Miss Ada Myrtle Swearse of Gladstone, South Australia, in recognition of her service during WW2 with the Fighting Forces Comforts Fund. The Hornsdale Unit raised funds and items for the men and women who were serving throughout the Second World War. Ada may have been involved with the selling of badges, preparing Christmas hampers, knitting an assortment of clothing (which included socks, jumpers, mittens and balaclavas), fundraisers or events throughout her service with the Hornsdale unit, some 200km north of Adelaide A newspaper article dated December 6 1941, reported that the total funds raised to date totalled £ 196,341/14/5 (including Christmas hampers funds for £ 11, 377/13/9). In 2025, this amount is the equivalent of $19,457,849.57. Just 4 years later, an article in The Advertiser, dated November 27 1945, provided an incredible total raised by the FFCF in South Australia: ￡740,043/1/7 ($65,272,351.17) - an incredible fundraising effort by the public of South Australia during a time of rationing and war.Category
Document, Personal Effects, War Memorabilia