88 was a pretty common unit sign at that stage, so the formation sign is the key.
In 9 Inf Div, the '88' was assigned to 2/7th Aust Field Regt, which matches the AWM's image caption. The Arm of Service background colours clearly have white as the upper colour, so have to be white over blue, ie, a signals unit. For the number '88' to show up against the white background, it has to be in red.
So, this shows it is the signals section attached to 2/7th Aust Field Regiment. At that stage of the war, signals sub-units attached to other arms of service units used the unit sign number of the unit to which they were attached (in this case, 2/7 Aust Fd Regt) over the signals' arm of service colours (white over blue) with the unit sign number in red. Clear as mud, eh?
Mike
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