Physical description
Plastic model of CAC Wirraway aircraft. Khaki and green paintwork. Plastic model of Bristol Beaufort aircraft. Yellow in colour.
Inscriptions & markings
A20 - 103. on Wirraway. AW665. PP B on Beaufort.
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Plastic model of CAC Wirraway aircraft. Khaki and green paintwork. Plastic model of Bristol Beaufort aircraft. Yellow in colour.
A20 - 103. on Wirraway. AW665. PP B on Beaufort.
Issued to Airmen during WW2
Buff coloured paper booklet with blue printing.
ww2, second world war, raaf, world war 2
Issued to Australian servicemen during World War 2.
Creature comforts for men at war
Round metal tin used for tobacco
WD & HO WILLS (AUSTRALIA) LTD SYDNEY, TRADE MARK and an 8 pointed star on lid. CAPSTAN NAVY CUT TOBACCO E FINE on base.
tobacco, smoking, world war 2, ww2, second world war
Compendium used for correspondence during WW2
This may have belonged to noted war correspondent and journalist Denis Ashton Warner 1917-2012. See notes section.
Brown leather writing compendium containing two Japanese occupation $100 notes, three postcards, one newspaper clipping and 34 photographs of various subjects.
Six of the photographs have writing on the back in two different hands. The postcard of a young woman is also inscriped.
world war 2, ww2, second world war, postcards, photographs, military, japanese currency
Contains photographs of a mans journey around the Middle East during World War 2.
Documents a part of WW2 during the early 1940's
Leather covered photo album with 43 pages of mainly WW2 photographs.
The front cover has coloured depictions of the pyramids , Egyptian figures and hieroglyphs. Back cover has the same scenes but not coloured.
world war 2, ww2, second world war, royal australian navy, photographs
Book contains photographs taken by sailors and soldiers during voyages to and from Vietnam in ships of the RAN
A personal record of memories from the Vietnam War
Coffee table book of photographs by Australian naval and military veterans of the Vietnam conflict
Signed by the author, Stephen Lewis
ran, vietnam war, vietnam, australian army
Japanese ammunition used during WW2
Cut down Japanese brass cartridge used as an ashtray
Japanese letters and a 6 and 8 inside a circle
ww2, second world war, world war 2, japanese ordnance, artillary, japanese artillary
Collected by a soldier during the First World War.
Brown webbing belt with 14 brass shoulder badges mainly from British Territorial regiments, an Australian shoulder badge and three metal buttons pinned to it
Various
ww1, world war 1, first world war, british, metal badges, shoulder badges, british regimental badges, australian shoulder badges
Made by Albert Henry Rogers who served in the British Army during WW1, the grandfather of the donor.
It was made as a symbol of hope as receiving letters from home gave them hope. Hence the bullet made into a letter opener is a symbol of something made to kill into something to give hope. (Transcribed from the donor's description)
Small letter opener consisting of a handle made from a .303 bullet and a blade made from an unknown metal. The projectile has been split in half lengthways and the blade soldered in. The markings on the cartridge indicate that it is a Mk VII cartridge manufactured by the Royal Laboratory in 1917.
Both sides of the blade have decorative engraving on them. The left side has "ARRAS" engraved on it and the right side has "1918 YPRES" engraved on it. The base of the cartridge is marked R^L 17 and VII.
ypres, arras, world war 1
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