A Rising Sun badge carved into a chalk hillside.

The Australian Army badge was cut into the chalk hill of Lamb Down, near the village of Codford, between 1916 and 1917 by Australian troops from the 13th Training Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces, stationed at the Codford and Sutton Veny military camps. Cutting and maintaining the badge became the focus of punishment parades, the soldiers made to climb the steep slope to the top of Lamb Down hill, wearing full packs, to carry out the work. The hill became affectionately known as Misery Hill. Approximately 54 by 46 metres (175 by 150 feet) in size, the original badge was embedded with green, brown and clear beer bottles to make it imitate bronze. During the Second World War it was covered over to prevent enemy aircraft using it as a navigation aid. Uncovered after the war, it was found that most of the glass had either washed away or sunk into the chalk below and it now remains as a chalk outline. The Lamb Down Badge is maintained each year by members of the Australian Army, stationed in England, and members of the local community as a memorial to the Australians who came here and died in the two great conflicts.

Codford Camp was established in 1914 and was occupied by various army regiments during the First World War. A second camp, sited close by, was used during the Second World War by various regiments, the US Army and as an Italian POW camp.

The village of Codford St Mary is where you will find a Commonwealth War Graves Commission ANZAC cemetery containing 98 graves, mostly of Australian and New Zealand forces. There is one burial from the Second World War.

Carved by servicemen stationed at the military camps at Codford and Sutton Veny.

Codford, England.

Lamb Down is situated near the village of Codford, between Warminster and Salisbury. The Badge can be seen from a viewpoint at Stockton, just off the A36, where an information board is sited.