Description
The postal numismatic cover is highly collectable, featuring a pictorial envelope with the $1 Anzac Memorial Day 1919 stamp from the Anzac Day 2019 stamp issue and a coin from the Royal Australian Mint.
This coin recognizes the 1919 Australian Repatriation Department, which undertook the massive task of repatriating Australian servicemen and women after the First World War. Tens of thousands of servicemen and nurses were provided with vital support and services.
In 1919 the Repatriation Department was created by the Australian government to facilitate the repatriation of tens of thousands of soldiers and nurses, many of whom bore the physical and psychological scars of war.