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"Ammunition." and remember bonds buy bullets.
Art
Maker: Lynch, Vincent Division of Pictorial Publicity Ketterlinus
United States First World War poster promoting the sale of War Bonds. It features an image of a soldier with a rifle, machine gun and empty ammunition boxes, at the front, reaching out toward the vie...ARTV00838
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Bantams: men may be accepted for service with infantry units with a minimum measurement of 5 feet...
Art
Maker: State Recruiting Committee of Victoria Mullett, Albert J
Australian First World War recruitment poster issued by the State Recruiting Committee of Victoria in 1917 urging ' Bantams' to enlist following the reduction of height restrictions for entry into the...ARTV04967
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Bridge, Henry (Private, b.? - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Bridge, Henry
Collection relating to service of 504 Private Henry Bridge, 2 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1916-1918. Collection includes letters written home to family in England from training camp in Australia a...1DRL/0151
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Carroll, Percy Thomas (Private, b.1893 - d.1954)
Private Record
Maker: Carroll, Percy Thomas
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1101 Private Percy Thomas Carroll, 23rd Infantry Battalion, 1915-1917. Collection consists of a black covered diary spanning the period 8 May 1915...PR04389
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Distinguished Conduct Medal: Private Thomas Arnott, 1st Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Conducted Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.AWM2021.659.1.1
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Easton, George Campbell (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Easton, George Campbell
Collection relating to service of 554 Corporal George Campbell Easton, 2 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1917. Collection includes typewritten extracts from letters written home to family in Sydney, N...1DRL/0255
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Falconer, Douglas (Lieutenant, b.1886 - d.1949)
Private Record
Maker: Falconer, Douglas
Collection relating to the First World War service of Second Lieutenant Douglas Falconer, 15th Field Ambulance, Belgium, 23 - 28 September, 1917. Wallet 1 of 1 - This collection consists of a short ...2DRL/0524
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Feed the guns with war bonds and help to end the war
Art
Maker: Thomas, Samuel Herbert National War Savings Committee Grosvenor Press Ltd.
British First World War poster issued by the National War Savings Committee to promote the sale of war bonds. It features a image of 3 British infantrymen in the upper left corner. One is standing whi...ARTV00974
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Fullard, Arthur Frederick (Lieutenant b.1895 - d.1979)
Private Record
Maker: Fullard, Arthur Frederick
Bound typed transcript of three diaries of Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Fullard (8th Machine Gun Company, 5th Division), covering the period November 1915 to December 1918. They describe his enlistment...PR01029
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Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. July 1915. Two historic points are shown here. Slightly to the left ...
Photograph
Maker: Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. July 1915. Two historic points are shown here. Slightly to the left is Ari Burnu Knoll which was the first objective of the 3rd Australian Brigade on landing at Gallipoli....G01086
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Help them: keep your war savings pledge
Art
Maker: Emerson, Casper American Lithographic Company
Depicts an American gun crew armed with war savings stamps for ammunition. Issued by the US Treasury Department, it emplores the American population to contribute to the war effort by buying more war ...ARTV00009
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Improvised machine gun flash extinguisher : Steele's Post, Gallipoli
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Steel flash extinguisher [suppressor] for a machine gun. It is made from a piece of flat steel rolled to form a cylinder, held together by rivets. There are three shrapnel holes near the rivets. At on...RELAWM00419
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Jackson, Harry Melville (Sergeant, b.1893 - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Jackson, Harry Melville
Collection relating to the service of 1766 Sergeant Harry Melville Jackson, 13 Battalion, Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of letters sent by Harry Jackson to his m...1DRL/0379
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Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War
Sound
Maker: Ferrier, George Morrison, Jill Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War Interview covered: ea...S02042
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Lance Corporal William (Bill) C. Gamble, 2nd Machine Gun Company, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War
Sound
Maker: Gamble, William C 'Bill' Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office Gamble, William C 'Bill'
Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlisted in AIF August 1916; impressions of France; gassed; training at Gas School; mates; shelling of Corbie Town Hall; Somme; relationships with British sol...S02044
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Lewis Mk 1 Machine Gun Bolt Assembly: 27 Battalion AIF
Technology
Maker: Birmingham Small Arms Co Ltd
Standard First World War issued Lewis Mk 1 Machine Gun. The barrel jacket has a large hole caused by an artillery fragmentation splinter and has a worn hand painted inscription detailing the history ...REL/02766.001
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Maxim MG08 Heavy Machine Gun : Lieutenant W H King, 2 Light Horse Regiment, AIF
Technology
Maxim MG08 Heavy Machine Gun. Receiver top stamped MG08 and the serial number. Fusee cover engraved DEUTSCHE WAFFEN BERLIN 1917 MUNITIONS FABRIKEN. The barrel jacket is painted dark green. It is missi...RELAWM11000
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Maxim MG08/15 Light Machine Gun : 6 Battalion AIF, Strazeele
Technology
German Maschinengewehr 08/15 Light Machine Gun. This was a water cooled, fully automatic weapon, firing a belt-fed 7.92mm caliber rimless round at up to 450 rounds per minute. It worked on the shor...RELAWM11017.001
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McConnell, James (Private, b.1881 - d.1955)
Private Record
Maker: McConnell, James
Collection relating to the First World War service of 693 Private James McConnell, 57 Infantry Battalion and 5 Machine Gun Battalion, Australia, Sierra Leone, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, at sea, ...AWM2016.638.1
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New and destroyed bridge, Peronne
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the destroyed bridge at Peronne in the foreground and the new bridge in the background. McCubbin was in Peronne in September 1918. Peronne is near the Somme battlefield a...ART03101
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Nixon Smith, John R (Private, 31st Bn b.1894 - d.1918)
Private Record
Collection relating to the First World War Service of 4815a Private John Richard Nixon-Smith, 31 Battalion, France, 1918. Wallet 1 of 1 - Wallet contains letters from Nixon-Smith to his father, and m...2DRL/0271
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Private Clive McKenzie, 5th Battalion, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War
Sound
Maker: McKenzie, Clive Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: early life; enlistment March 1916; family's reaction to enlistment; impressions of France; extreme cold; lack of rations in front line; Albert and meeting a civilian girl; wounded at Bullec...S02056
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Reardon, Francis (Private, b.1892 - d.1922)
Private Record
Maker: Reardon, Francis
Collection relating to the First World War service of 251 Private Francis (Frank) Reardon, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry Force. Collection consists of a well detailed letter written b...PR04662
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Sars-Poteries [The Quartermaster's store]
Art
Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts two soldiers dividing up rations for the 6th Battalion in the Quartermaster's store, which was situated in a few rooms of a deserted French chateau in Sars-Poteries. Pictured is a German machi...ART02562.006
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Series 4: Unit histories collected by Henry Arthur Goddard
Digitised Collection
Maker: Goddard, Henry Arthur
Battalion histories and other papers relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard, 9th Infantry Brigade. The first series consists of a pocket leather notebook co...RCDIG0000659
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Shaw, George Duncan (Lieutenant, b.1894 - d.1984)
Private Record
Maker: Shaw, George Duncan
Collection relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant George Shaw, 28 Battalion, AIF. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection consists of copies of letters and papers detailing Lieutenant Shaw's exper...PR83/027
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Steel Shield for MG08 machine gun
Technology
Steel shield 3 feet 8 inches wide, x 2 feet 4 inches high, x 3/8 inches thick, through which a round hole 2 1/2 inches in diameter has been placed about two inches above cooling jacket and slightly to...RELAWM10742
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Sticker, Peter William (Lance Corporal, b.1889 - d.1969)
Private Record
Maker: Sticker, Peter William
Collection relating to the First World War service of 6094 Lance Corporal Peter William Sticker, 1 Battalion, 1916-1921. Wallet 1 of 1 - Consists of a notebook and discharge certificate relating to S...PR04443
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Sub-Series 2: Brigade Histories
Digitised Collection
Maker: Goddard, Henry Arthur
Papers relating to the First World War service of Brigadier General Henry Arthur Goddard, 9th Brigade. This series comprises of a narrative history of the 9th Brigade, 'Chain of Events: History of th...RCDIG0000661
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Taking Chances
Art
Maker: Unknown Social Hygiene Division
Venereal disease prevention poster, presumably the ninth page of a book that has been torn out. Two black and white illustrations accompany the text - the one in the upper left corner is a soldier man...ARTV07536
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The War of Munitions, How Great Britain has mobilised her industries.
Art
Maker: G.K Unknown Unknown
British First World War poster issued to illustrate the success of industrial mobilisation. The title is separate and positioned across the top, in black and red. Fourteen separate images make up the ...ARTV00305
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Three 'Turn of the Century' ABC Radio Programs featuring Dr Peter Stanley discussing aspects of Australia's military involvement in war and peacekeeping throughout the 1900s
Sound
Maker: Stanley, Peter Evans, Tritia ABC Radio
PROGRAM 1: Dr Stanley discuses attitudes to war and Australia's committment to war; Australian's went to the Boer War (South Africa) with idea that war was romantic and adventurous but during the cent...S02107
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Two soldiers in trench with Lewis gun
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts two Australian soldiers, one who is smoking a pipe, standing in a trench near a gun mount with a Lewis gun, during the First World War. Charles Bryant had some early art lessons before beginni...ART00161
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Vol. 4: Diaries of Thomas James Richards, 9 November 1916 - 31 May 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian War Memorial Richards, Thomas James 'Rusty'
This series contains the seventeenth through twenty-third First World War diaries of Lieutenant Thomas James Richards, 1st Australian Infantry Battalion. Sometime after returning home from the war, Ri...RCDIG0001489
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With the machine guns
Art
Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a figure of a digger crouched behind a machine gun, aiming at an aircraft in the sky above. This work was used to illustrate a written work by NWH Beaven. The illustration appeared in 'The Kia...ART94675