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Letter from Corporal S Humphries
Digitised Collection
Maker: Humphries, Cyril Melville
Letter from Corporal S [Cyril Melville] Humphries. The letter describes action in the trenches and speaks of the rifles used in combat; the Ross and the short English Lee- Enfield. [Includes envelope ...AWM2017.6.53
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Letters and cablegrams written by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood to Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1915
Digitised Collection
Maker: Birdwood, William Riddell
This folder contains copies of 10 letters and cablegrams sent by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood to Sir Munro Ferguson, Governor-General of Australia, between 17 May 1915 and 22 December 1915. Som...RCDIG0000039
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Letters from George Alexander Hugh Murray to his family, 1914
Digitised Collection
Maker: Murray, George Alexander Hugh
Letters relating to the First World War service of 1379 Sergeant George Alexander Hugh Murray, 14th Infantry Battalion. In this series of letters, Murray details life at the recruitment and training c...RCDIG0000956
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Lieutenant A J Shout, 1st Battalion AIF (later Captain, VCand MC), sniping with a periscope rifle.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Lieutenant A J Shout, 1st Battalion AIF (later Captain, VCand MC), sniping with a periscope rifle.A04045
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LIVERPOOL, NSW. C. 1915-04. AN ARMY RECRUIT NOT YET IN UNIFORM SITTING OUTSIDE HIS TENT CLEANING ...
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LIVERPOOL, NSW. C. 1915-04. AN ARMY RECRUIT NOT YET IN UNIFORM SITTING OUTSIDE HIS TENT CLEANING A RIFLE. (DONOR E.K. BURKE)H03394
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LIVERPOOL, NSW. C. 1915-04. EIGHT RIFLES IN THE PILED ARMS POSITION AT THE RECRUIT CAMP. (DONOR ...
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LIVERPOOL, NSW. C. 1915-04. EIGHT RIFLES IN THE PILED ARMS POSITION AT THE RECRUIT CAMP. (DONOR E.K. BURKE)H03395
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Loos, France. 31 January 1918. The riddled ironwork of the Crassier at Loos, and the three rifles ...
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Loos, France. 31 January 1918. The riddled ironwork of the Crassier at Loos, and the three rifles fixed for firing "grenade signals" by wire. Overhead the structure made an excellent observation post,...E04565
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MAADI, EGYPT. C. 1915. A GROUP OF 5TH AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT (5ALH) MEN WITH RIFLES ...
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MAADI, EGYPT. C. 1915. A GROUP OF 5TH AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT (5ALH) MEN WITH RIFLES MOVING THROUGH CAMP WITH A LARGE CANTEEN TENT BEHIND THEM.H02775
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Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk I* Rifle
Technology
Magazine Lee-Enfield Mark 1* bolt action rifle. Receiver stamped with a crown over ER BSA&Co 1902 LE I* under the bolt arm. The butt is marked with the BSA company roundel, I* and the tang stamped TAS...REL28445
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Making soldiers: the gas mask
Art
Maker: Kennington, Eric Henri Ministry of Information Avenue Press
A British soldier stands in a trench and prepares to put on the gas mask he is holding. Behind him other soldiers already have their gas masks on, or are in the process of doing so. Kennington's 'Maki...ART91694
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Maquette for 'The Anzacs' [Desert Mounted Corps Memorial]
Art
Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Gregory, E J
Light Horseman mounted on rearing horse, while NZ Mounted Rifleman is dismounting as his horse scrambles to its feet, created to commemorate the Australians and New Zealanders of the Desert Mounted Co...ART12593.001
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Martini Cadet Rifle : New South Wales Citizen Military Forces
Technology
Martini Cadet Rifle. Lever action marked on the right side COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA and 49043 over NSW over 22.637. Left side MADE BY THE BIRMINGHAM SMALL ARMS Co Ltd and TRADE MARK with three crosse...REL/19126
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Mauser G98 rifle foresight protector : Trooper L D Price, 2 Light Horse Field Ambulance, AIF
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Brass foresight protector from Mauser G98 rifle. Engraved on cap with Turkish characters.RELAWM13235
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Mauser Model G98a Rifle
Technology
Mauser Model G98 bolt action rifle. The receiver breech ring is marked WAFFENFABRIK MAUSER OBERNDORF 1916 and the left side Gew 98. The rifle is complete with a matching serial number bolt but missing...RELAWM00583.001
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Mauser Model G98 Rifle
Technology
Maker: Amberg Arsenal
Mauser Model 98 bolt action rifle. Polished steel action and bolt with a blued barrel and trigger guard. Breech ring top stamped with a crown over AMBERG 1916. Full wood stock and top hand guard showi...RELAWM03710
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Mauser Model G98 Rifle : Sergeant G E Watkins, 39 Battalion AIF.
Technology
Maker: Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken AG
Mauser Model Gew 98 bolt action rifle is a turn bolt, 5 round staggered box magazine rifle. The bolt has two forward locking lugs and cocks on opening and a three position safety on the rear of the bo...REL35000
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Mauser Model G98 Sniper Rifle : German Army
Technology
Mauser Model G98 Sniper Rifle. Bolt action receiver has German proof marks, Gew 98, 1917 and the serial number. The manufacturers name is unaccessable under the front telescope mount. This rifle is fi...RELAWM03709
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Mauser Model G98 Sniper Rifle : German Army
Technology
Maker: Mauser-Werke AG Oberndorf
Mauser Model G98 Sniper Rifle. Bolt action receiver has German proof marks, Gew 98, 1917 and the serial number. This rifle is fitted with a 4X telescopic sight made by C.P.Goertz Berlin, serial number...RELAWM03709.001
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Mauser Model 1889 Rifle : Belgian Army
Technology
Model 1889 Mauser bolt action rifle. Receiver stamped HOPKINS and ALLEN ARMS CO. NORWICH. CONN.U.S.A. The serial number is stamped on the barrel, receiver, stock, butt plate and bolt. It is complete w...REL/05763
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Mauser Model 1893 Rifle : Turkish Army
Technology
Mauser Model 1893 bolt action rifle. Turkish toghra cypher on the breech top and Arabic markings on left side of receiver (translates as Mauser Werke Oberndorf). Full wood stock and top hand guard. Ov...REL22629
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Members of the 5th Division at a rifle meeting at Sivry.
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Members of the 5th Division at a rifle meeting at Sivry.H00481
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MEMBERS OF THE 8TH LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT AT THE WILLIAMSTOWN RIFLE RANGE, VICTORIA. ON THE LEFT, ...
Photograph
MEMBERS OF THE 8TH LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT AT THE WILLIAMSTOWN RIFLE RANGE, VICTORIA. ON THE LEFT, STANDING, IS LIEUTENANT COLONEL A.H. WHITE, AND NEXT TO HIM IS CAPTAIN CROWL, ADJUTANT. (PURCHASED FROM ...J02773
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MEMBERS OF THE 8TH LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT AT THE WILLIAMSTOWN RIFLE RANGE, VICTORIA. ON THE LEFT, ...
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MEMBERS OF THE 8TH LIGHT HORSE REGIMENT AT THE WILLIAMSTOWN RIFLE RANGE, VICTORIA. ON THE LEFT, STANDING, IS LIEUTENANT COLONEL A.H. WHITE, AND NEXT TO HIM IS CAPTAIN CROWL, ADJUTANT. (PURCHASED FROM ...J02774
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MEN OF THE NSW MEDICAL CORPS DEMONSTRATED THE HANDLING OF WOUNDED WHILE IN CAMPO AT CAPE TOWN, ...
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MEN OF THE NSW MEDICAL CORPS DEMONSTRATED THE HANDLING OF WOUNDED WHILE IN CAMPO AT CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA DURING 1899-12. THE MAN BEING LIFTED ON TO THE STRETCHER IS FROM "A" SQUADRON OF THE NSW MOU...A05209
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Messines (winter)
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
This painting depicts the site of the battle of Messines on the Western Front. It is a snowy, war-torn landscape with soldiers and bare trees in the midground, and a river in the foreground.ART11421
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Mine sweepers at work on the first day after the Australians had entered El Arish. A wire hawser ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Mine sweepers at work on the first day after the Australians had entered El Arish. A wire hawser is stretched from boat to boat which brings the mines to the surface. They are then exploded by rifle...J01007
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Model 1917 Enfield Rifle
Technology
Model 1917 Enfield bolt action rifle. Receiver stamped U.S. MODEL OF 1917 WINCHESTER and the serial number. Barrel stamped near the muzzle 3-18. Bolt marked W and NS. Full wood stock with a top hand g...REL/05764
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Naval Gun Aiming Rifle : SMS Emden
Technology
Single shot, bolt action aiming rifle with an iron frame that clamps to the knox form. The barrel has an outer tube with a muzzle that has a large disc and an 'L' shaped bracket. The rifle has a brass...RELAWM19008
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2nd Division infantry attack
Art
Maker: Butler-George, May Meridian Sculpture Founders
This work is taken from an original plaster cast of one of four bronze bas-relief panels commissioned from Butler-George for the base of the pedestal of the Mont St. Quentin Memorial in France in 1918...ART90536
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Newspaper clippings relating to Henry Miller Lanser, 1914-1915
Digitised Collection
Maker: Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force The Daily Telegraph Unknown Various
Serials and newspaper clippings relating to the First World War service of 712 Second Lieutenant Henry Miller Lanser, 1st Australian Infantry Battalion, 1914-1915; unknown. This collection includes n...AWM2018.19.23
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NEW ZEALAND MOUNTED RIFLES (INSPECTION OF COMPOSITE TROOP).
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
NEW ZEALAND MOUNTED RIFLES (INSPECTION OF COMPOSITE TROOP).H00584
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No 36 Mk I Grenade (Mills Bomb)
Technology
No 36 Mk I grenade. The body is oval shaped and is made from cast iron. The wall is segmented in an attempt to control fragmentation and provide grip. A screw plug is formed on the side for filling t...RELAWM02093
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Nosecap from a Short Magazine Lee Enfield No 1 Mk III Rifle: Gallipoli
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Rusted nosecap from a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle. The right wing of the nosecap has broken off. There is a crack in front of the left fore sight protector. A small broken piece of the stock is p...REL/10074
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Not titled
Art
Maker: Dunne, Frank
Depicts a cartoon of a group of soldiers standing in a trench.ART12455
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Not titled [Australian Soldier in France]
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Drawing of an Australian soldier wearing a great coat, slouch hat with a rising sun badge attached to it and carrying a pack in France during the First World War. Charles Bryant had some early art les...ART00163
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not titled [Soldier in helmet]
Art
Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Three quarter length portrait of a soldier in black charcoal. He is wearing full battle dress and holding a rifle in his right hand and a bayonet in his left. This is evidence of Rix Nicholas’s confid...ART96813
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Not titled [Soldier with a rifle]
Art
Sketch on a leaf torn from a small sketchpad, depicting a naval officer sitting atop a bollard, his legs bent up towards his hips and his rifle poised as if on guard. This is one of a series of sketch...ART03605.011.001
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On guard
Art
Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web
Infantryman with rifle and fixed bayonet, wearing full webbing, protective (tin) helmet and gas mask on chest.ART09834
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On les aura! [We'll get them!]
Art
Maker: Faivre, Jules Abel French Government Devambez Imprimerie
French First World war poster advertising the Second National Defence Loan. A 1916 poster highly regarded for its artistic quality by the French cartoonist, painter and portraitist Jules Abel Faivre....ARTV00065
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[On the march]
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts a group of six Australian soldiers walking in line carrying rifles and packs being followed by a small dog.ART02950
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On the Messines Road
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a war damaged landscape along the Messines Road in Belgium during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning his career as a clerk in the Ban...ART00182
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On the Sinai Peninsula
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Soldiers and camels crossing the Sinai Desert, Egypt.ART00218
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Overall design for 'The Anzacs' [Desert Mounted Corps Memorial]
Art
Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web
In 1923, Charles Web Gilbert, with architects Stephenson & Meldrum, were awarded first prize for their winning design for the 'Monument to the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Forces who lai...ART12593
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Over the top
Art
Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Bowles, Leslie
Depicts an Infantryman, wearing a uniform and tin helmet, in the act of climbing out of a trench to attack across No Man's Land, during the First World War.ART09833
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Palestine. c. 1918. A Light Horseman crouches behind the back of his prostrate horse, his rifle ...
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Palestine. c. 1918. A Light Horseman crouches behind the back of his prostrate horse, his rifle held at the ready. He is training his horse for patrolling where they are trained to lie on the ground, ...P02544.005
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PALESTINE, 1918-05. OBSERVATION POST ("BOLTS" POST). AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS BEHIND A ROCK OUTCROP ...
Photograph
PALESTINE, 1918-05. OBSERVATION POST ("BOLTS" POST). AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS BEHIND A ROCK OUTCROP WITH RIFLES AT THE READY, IN THE JORDAN VALLEY. (DONOR V.COSTIN)P00055.003
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Pattern 13 (P13) Rifle
Technology
Pattern 13 rifle (British experimental). The receiver is not marked apart from a a double arrow sale mark on the left side and the serial number. The stock is unmarked and the foregrip has four diagon...REL/19552
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Pioneer
Art
Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Bowles, Leslie Gregory, E J
Bronze statue cast in 1936 from a mould made in 1922, of an Infantryman (also known as a pioneer), with rifle and spade. Pioneers were specialist infantrymen, who, as well as their ordinary infantry d...ART12428
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PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT ERNEST WOLSELEY PEARSE, MID, CROIX DE GUERRE, 7TH AND 11TH LONDON RIFLES.
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PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT ERNEST WOLSELEY PEARSE, MID, CROIX DE GUERRE, 7TH AND 11TH LONDON RIFLES.H06178
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PRIVATE A. DU FRAYER OF THE NSW MOUNTED RIFLES, WEARING THE QUEENS SCARF, AWARDED FOR BRAVERY IN ...
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PRIVATE A. DU FRAYER OF THE NSW MOUNTED RIFLES, WEARING THE QUEENS SCARF, AWARDED FOR BRAVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE SCARF WAS CROCHETED BY QUEEN VICTORIA AND IS NOW HELD BY THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL.A04542