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Unknown - RAAF Tie Bar/Trench Art, RAAF Tie Bar
Decorative tie bar to be worn socially and to signify a present or past association with the RAAFSilvered tie bar with silver suspension chain attached either end. Centrally attached to the chain is a small RAAF badge with extended wings. -
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Tool - Magneto Field Lamp
German World War 1 magneto lamp. It has a carrier rope and a pull down ring. It has a prism lens. -
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Tool - Trench Telescope
WW1 British Officer's Trench telescope. Wooden handle supporting brass telescope. Manufacturing details stamped on plate at rear of eyepiece. Not complete as missing eye protection piece.Periscope Mk IX 1918 R&J Beck Ltd No. 29619 -
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Bulls-eye Trench Lantern
Used in WW1 as a trench lamp. It was a private issue item, not a government issue. It is made of black painted tin with a magnifying lens and tin folding handle. The item is candle-powered. -
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Swagger Stick
Trench art WW1 swagger stick. Cane body with 15mm metal tip. Head of stick comprises two 0.303 inch spent cartridges joined through bottom third of each cartridge case. One is inserted to the head of the cane and the cross case has an unexpended bullet inserted.Each Cartridge case CAC VI 12 5 -
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Tool - Bulls-eye Trench Lantern
This is a black painted tin lamp with a tin handle used in the trenches n WW1. Private issue, not government. It is candle-powered. -
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Spirit Trench Lamp
This is a lamp used in WW1 in the trenches, private issue, not government. It is spirit-powered. It is made of copper and brass. -
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Spirit Trench Lamp
This lamp used in the trenches in WW1. It was spirit-powered. It was private issued, not government issue. It is made of copper and brass. It has an adjustable light fitting. -
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Swagger Stick
Trench Art WW2 Swagger Stick. wooden stick tipped with chromed expended German cartridge case. The cane head is topped with chromed crossed British .303 expended cartridges each tipped with unexpended bullets. attached to the side of the crossed cartridge cases is a 1937 British Coronation medalet -
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Kerosene Trench Lamp
This lamp was used in the trenches in WW1. It was a private issue, not government. It is made of tin and brass with an adjustable light fitting. It has a reflective, adjustable mirror. -
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Swagger Stick
Swagger stick belonged to and was used by Major Alfred Norman Dean Royal Australian Army Medical CorpsTimber stick 820mm long with brass tip 25mm long and bulbed head 40mm in diameter. RAAMC silver collar badge attached to shaft 130mm from head. -
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Swagger Stick
Wooden shaft with carved wooden handle 90 degrees to the shaft. Shaft is tipped with .303 round with base cut off and affixed to end of wooden shaft.Nil -
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Swagger Stick
Wooden shaft 680mm tipped with 25mm silvered metal cap and 40mm silvered metal head with pressed Royal Irish Fusiliers crest Royal Irish Fusiliers crest pressed into silvered cap on head of shaft -
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Munition, German 75 mm
Artillery cartridge case of German origin, used during WW1. This used brass case is approximately 75 mm diameter and is marked with a 1916 manufacturing date.stamped: "St 263 Sept 1916 SP167" -
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Collection, A E Wilson, Government issue
Collection of items relating to the WWl service of Australian Army Private Albert Edward Wilson MM, service number 12435 of the 10th Field Ambulance, Australian medical Corp (AMC), Australian Imperial Force (AIF). Private Wilson gave his address as Moorooduc, Victoria at the time of enlistment, he embarked Melbourne with the 10th FA on 6th June, 1916. more details can be found at the following NAA webpage ... < https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1995801 > see also 00019.1 and 00019.2ww1, field, identification, tag, a e wilson, 10th, ambulance -
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Booklet - Book, Government issue, Soldiers Pay Book
WW1Soldiers Pay Book belonging to Private A.E. Wilson, service number 12435, 10th Field Ambulance, AMC, AIF. see also 00019 and 00019.1ww1, field, identification, tag, a e wilson, 10th, ambulance -
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Booklet - Book, Pay
Australian Army pay book of serviceman James Robert Clancy (VX44669) who enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 8th July 1940. See also items 00456, 00456.1, 00456.2 and 00456.3. -
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Booklet - Pocketbook, Souvenir, Australian Imperial Regiment, Souvenir of the Victorian contingent, April, 1900
Small booklet containing the words of a patriotic song about the Victorian contingent to the second Boer War, April 1900. This illustrated booklet has a stiff card cover printed in colour and has 12 pages printed in sepia tones. Published by E. Whitehead & Co., Printers, 238 Collins Street, Melbourne. -
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Book, The Dardanelles An Epic told in Pictures
Book of 112 pages describing the events that occurred in April 1915 and onwards when Britain and her allies landed at the Dardanelles, Turkey. This illustrated book has a stiff buff coloured card cover and is printed in sepia tones. Published by The Alfieri Picture Service 4,5,6&7, Red Lion Court Fleet Street, London, E.C. -
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Water Bottle and Leather Harness
WW1 Metal Water Bottle with blue enamel coating. Item is held by a leather harness that attaches to leather personal webbing. Water bottle is missing a cork.Nil -
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Menu Christmas 1918
Framed Christmas Menu Rambures France 1918. Created by Signallers and Runners of 4 Section 3 DSC AIF. Typed Menu with standard meal items on White paper accompanied by printed menu using slang terms. -
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Electron Valve
RCA electron valve, 7 pin circular base, type CRC-329-BRCA JAN CRC-329-B made in USA, 8298 in octagonal field, V4, -
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Binoculars
Binoculars of WW2 era with khaki woven canvas neck suspension strap. Scale and focus details stamped on facings and eye piecesStamped in right barrel facing V6/VFA 0220 Graticule 1/2 degree & 1/4 degree 1/2 degree & 1 degree High R.E.C./CANADA 1943 Stamped in left barrel facing No 2 Mk II Vertical Arrow C.G.B. 53 G.A. 6x30 2755 9-C 27559-C 4 2 0 2 4 graduations stamped on right and left eye pieces -
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Book - Signed Book, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18 Vol. III The A.I.F. in France 1916 by C.E.W. Bean
Red cloth bound book with gold embossed title lettering Frankston Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's Club and Frankston R.S.L. Library Loans record sheet pasted inside front cover.On book spine - Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18 Vol. III The A.I.F. in France 1916 by C.E.W. Bean Angus & Robertson 2nd Edition 1934 Book Plate Ex Libris Frankston Sub-Branch R.S.S.I.L.A. contains personal signature of author CEW Bean -
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Stand, Tripod, Puddefoot Bowers & Simonett Limited, ca 1940
A portable, three legged stand in the form of a tripod, used by Australian and British Commonwealth military forces for mounting the standard issue signaling lamp and heliograph. The three collapsible, metal tipped, wooden legs are joined by hinge fittings to a brass collar with a threaded mount at one end (the head). The mounting thread is approximately 38mm diameter and fitted with a protective cap which can be removed for use, the cap being retained by a length of light chain. The stand is complete with a leather and webbing carrying strap attached to the head fitting of the stand with a leather sleeve at the other end which fits over the free end of the legs when folded.The brass collar and mount is stamped: "STAND LAMP OR HELIO A MKlll" the manufacturer "P.M.G. VIC" and "1941"military, tripod, ww2, world war 2, signalling, heliograph, stand -
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Shrapnel Pieces
Shrapnel pieces from an exploded Claymore mine. -
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Memorabilia - Munition, Trench Art
Pair of 6 PDR brass cartridge cases of WW2 vintage. These were manufactured in Britain and are a version used by Naval weapons. These used cartridge cases are examples of trench art which have been embossed with bird and flower symbols. These have been made into flower vases. these were manufactured during the 1940s. -
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Kit, Mess
Incomplete mess kit as issued to the ALH (Australian Light Horse) during the early 20th century. Most probably as used as a food container by ALH troopers during WWI. This circular mess tin is made of tin plated steel and is complete with a carrying handle. This is the lower half of the kit, the matching upper half being missing.