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Wound Stripe : Private E C Peddell, 2 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brass wound stripe with backing plate. Text on the reverse of the stripe reads, 'SERVICE WOUNDED STRIPE SS LTD-B-No 4 PROV PAT 7342'. Impressed into the backing plate is: 'THE WOUNDED STRIPE PROV No 4...REL28897
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Wound stripe : Second Lieutenant A McDermid, 3 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brass wound stripe with backing plate. Impressed into the backing plate is: 'NO 4 THE EMPIRE WOUNDED STRIPE PROV PAT'.REL39858
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3 Wound Stripes : Private A L Ferguson, 18 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
3 wound stripes with brass backing plate. The stripes have a horizontal ridged pattern running the length of each stripe. On the reverse is written in raised lettering 'SERVICE WOUNDED STRIPE / S.S. L...REL38980
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Woven silk postcard with image of Edith Cavell
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
A woven silk postcard showing an image of Edith Cavell, seated with two dogs. The postcard relates to the First World War Service of 9 Corporal Francis Wesley Tyler MM, 11 Machine Gun Company.AWM2018.147.2
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Wreckage aboard the German commerce raider Emden after it was pounded by HMAS Sydney near Cocos ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Wreckage aboard the German commerce raider Emden after it was pounded by HMAS Sydney near Cocos Island.EN0214
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Wreckage amidships of the German light cruiser Emden, showing the engine room casings. After a ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Wreckage amidships of the German light cruiser Emden, showing the engine room casings. After a highly successful career as a raider, involving the capture or sinking of 21 vessels in a six week perio...EN0242
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Wreckage on the beach (1st Field Bakery).
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Wreckage on the beach (1st Field Bakery).H03566
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Wreckage on the deck of the German commerce raider Emden after her encounter with HMAS Sydney on ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Wreckage on the deck of the German commerce raider Emden after her encounter with HMAS Sydney on 9 November 1914. The Sydney's successful action ended the career of a highly successful commerce raide...EN0399
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"Wrecked Lighters (ashore) West Beach Suvla after a storm. 1st RANBT busy at salvage work " ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
"Wrecked Lighters (ashore) West Beach Suvla after a storm. 1st RANBT busy at salvage work " (Album caption). A page from one of two albums (P11155 and P11165) relating to the service of Lieutenant Com...P11155.023
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Wrecked train engines and crane destroyed by the enemy when evacuating in September 1918.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Wrecked train engines and crane destroyed by the enemy when evacuating in September 1918.B01109
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Wrestling on horseback at the Anzac Day Sports at Ferry Post, in Egypt.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Wrestling on horseback at the Anzac Day Sports at Ferry Post, in Egypt.C04996
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Wrist watch : Captain George Furner Langley, 21st Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wrist watch with white dial and black numerals, contained in a brown leather cover with wrist strap. The hands and protective mesh cover are missing.REL49309
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Wrist watch: Staff Nurse A L Hunter, 3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Gold coloured wrist watch. The white enamelled dial bears gold painted numbers within black borders. Much of the gold paint is now missing. The watch face has some cracks, and a section of it face is ...REL35756
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Wristwatch with mesh guard: Private A M Nicholson, 5 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Silver watch with nickel plated brass mesh guard over the watch face and an unattached leather wrist strap. The glass is missing from the face. The face has two dials, one for hours and minutes, and a...REL38751.001
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"Writing home after 3 months' hard going". Informal portrait of 338 Private (Pte) Walter Mundell ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
"Writing home after 3 months' hard going". Informal portrait of 338 Private (Pte) Walter Mundell Keddie in his tent. A crane driver from Sydney, NSW, Pte Keddie embarked with the 12th Light Horse from...P04933.001
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Writing pad of patriotic notepaper
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Patriotic writing pad showing, on the cover, the helmet of a suit of armour crowned with a laurel wreath, Acanthus leaves, and a shield containing the words 'Our Allies' Arms.' In a banner below are t...REL31580
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Wurttemberg Order of Friedrich : Fifth Class with Swords
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemberg Order of Friedrich, 5th Class with Swords. A silver cross pattée, with slightly concave ends to the arms, surmounted by crossed swords in silver gilt. Obverse/reverse: In the centre a whit...RELAWM01318
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Wurttemburg Charlotte Cross
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Charlotte Cross. A matt silver cross treflée. Obverse: A 13 mm central medallion with the entwined initials 'CW'. Reverse: '1916' on the central medallion. The cross is fitted with a loose...RELAWM01324
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Wurttemburg Merit Cross with Swords
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Merit Cross with Swords. A silver cross pattée convex with gold swords between the arms. Obverse: A crown over 'W' (Wilhelm) on a central disc. Reverse: 'VERDIENST *' on a central disc. Th...RELAWM01326
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Wurttemburg Military Merit Medal
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Military Merit Medal (silver). Unnamed as issued. Obverse: The head of Wilhelm II facing right with the inscription 'WILHELM II KOENIG VON WUERTTEMBERG' around the circumference. Reverse: ...RELAWM01323
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Wurttemburg Military Merit Medal
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Military Merit Medal (silver). Unnamed as issued. Obverse: The head of Wilhelm II facing right with the inscription 'WILHELM II KOENIG VON WUERTTEMBERG' around the circumference. Reverse: ...RELAWM01322
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Wurttemburg Military Merit Medal
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Military Merit Medal (silver). Unnamed as issued, but stamped '950 SILBER' on the edge near the suspender. Obverse: The head of Wilhelm II facing right with the inscription 'WILHELM II KOE...RELAWM01321
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Wurttemburg Order of Military Merit, Knights Cross
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Order of Military Merit Knights Cross (Third Class). A silver gilt, white enamelled cross pattée concave. Obverse: A white medallion with a gold laurel wreath within by a blue enamelled ci...RELAWM01325
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Wurttemburg Order of the Crown, with Swords
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Order of the Crown, with Swords. A white enamelled Bath cross surmounted by silver crossed swords. Obverse: In the centre a crown over 'F' on a white field within a red (orange) border ins...RELAWM01320
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Wurttemburg Wilhelm Cross, Second Class
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wurttemburg Wilhelm's Cross, 2nd Class. A bronze cross pattée convexed, with crossed swords between the arms. Obverse: In the central medallion a gothic 'W' within an oak leaf wreath, a crown on the t...RELAWM01319
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WW1 diary of an anonymous soldier
Private Record
Maker: Unknown
Diary of a soldier in Egypt, believed to have been written by John Leonard Hewitson (269), 6 Light Horse Regiment. It contains irregular entries which cover daily activities. He describes his stay in...PR85/079
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1 x album relating to Gallipoli and Egypt believed to belong to Richard Henry Allan of Burleigh ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
1 x album relating to Gallipoli and Egypt believed to belong to Richard Henry Allan of Burleigh Station, Richmond, Queensland. "Burleigh Boys". Brown, cloth covered album contains 43 pages with 87 bla...P09621
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"Xmas Day in Gallipoli"
Manuscript
Maker: Unknown
Two part cartoon submitted for inclusion in "The Anzac Book", a publication which was produced in 1916 from works produced by soldiers on the Gallipoli peninsula. The top cartoon shows soldiers rumm...RC02954
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Xmas Greetings
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard featuring a Latin Cross surrounded by holly and entwined in a red, white, and blue ribbon. Below are embroidered the words "Xmas Greetings". The card was sent by Private 6307...AWM2019.83.3
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Xmas greetings
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features a bird sitting outside a snow covered tree house surrounded by sprigs of holly.RC06111
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Xmas greetings
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features a cottage in the snow surrounded by sprigs of holly and mistletoe.RC06110
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Xmas Greetings
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features a string of brightly coloured tolling bells above a cottage and palm trees. A shooting star also appears in ...RC06019
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Xmas wishes
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features the Red Ensign and French flag flying between bare trees beside a small village.RC06020
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7.65 x 53 mm Mauser ammunition projectile: Private Hubert Hume Corney, 24 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Fired 7.65 x 53 mm Mauser ammunition projectile.RELAWM12586
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Y "DARN PAPUR" [The Scrap of Paper]
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Johnson, Riddle & Co. Ltd.
Welsh version of a poster produced by the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, which in English is known as 'The Scrap of Paper'. It depicts the 'scrap of paper' signed by representatives of t...ARTV08178
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Yeronga State School Roll of Honour
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Honour board for the Yeronga State School Roll of Honour, listing students who enlisted in the First World War. The board was unveiled on 4 May 1918, along with the opening of a new wing at the scho...AWM2018.927.1
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Yes complete victory if you eat less bread...
Art
Maker: Unknown Ministry of Food Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd
British First World War poster issued by the Ministry of Food (no. 17) to encourage citizens to eat less bread as part of the war effort. Features central image of a giant loaf of bread with the words...ARTV00377
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YMCA Australian Rules medalet : Corporal A J Murray, 102 Howitzer Battery, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: J R Gaunt & Sons Unknown
The obverse of this silver medalet has a map of Australia in the centre superimposed with an inverted triangle and a small Rising Sun badge. Over this are the letters 'YMCA'. The reverse has the maker...REL26876
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YMCA Blackboard showing details of a ‘Sports on the Beach today at 2:30. Program includes ‘1 100 ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
YMCA Blackboard showing details of a ‘Sports on the Beach today at 2:30. Program includes ‘1 100 yards championship; 2 Carry-your-chum race; 3 Throwing the hammer; 4 Long jump; 5 Wheelbarrow race; 6 S...P03569.004
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Y.M.C.A. : Esbekiah...
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Maker: Unknown National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV05508
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Y.M.C.A. : in Egypt ...
Art
Maker: Unknown National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV05507
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Y.M.C.A. : in Egypt: caring for the convalescents...
Art
Maker: Unknown National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV05509
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Y.M.C.A. : Ismailia ...
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Maker: Unknown National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV05506
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Y.M.C.A. London Central... opening night of season...
Art
Maker: Unknown Young Men's Christian Association Tate & Co.
Advertising poster issued by the Young Men Christian Association to promote the opening night of their concert season for 1918. Printed in dark blue and red ink it is a playbill with the performers li...ARTV05872
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Y.M.C.A. : Mena...
Art
Maker: Unknown National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV05512
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YMCA Mena
Art
Maker: National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV09260
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Y.M.C.A. : Zeltoun...
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Maker: Unknown National Committee Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia Unknown
Australian First World War poster issued by the National Committee (Army and Navy Department) of the Young Men's Christian Association of Australasia (YMCA). One of a series issued to encourage new su...ARTV05510
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You boast of your freedom, come and fight for it
Art
Maker: Hannan, Jim State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Unknown
Australian First World War recruitment poster issued by the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. It appeals to young men in Australia to act on their feelings of patriotism to enlist and fight fo...ARTV00041
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Youdale, Alfred Clarence (Captain, b.1888 - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Commonwealth of Australia Unknown Various Youdale, Alfred Clarence Youdale, Roy Harold
Collection relating to the First World War service of 971 Captain Alfred Clarence Youdale, 7th Light Horse Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, United Kingdom, and Bel...AWM2017.1253.1
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You have in your pocket silver bullets
Art
Maker: Parliamentary War Savings Committee Unknown Parliamentary War Savings Committee David Allen & Sons Ltd
British poster produced by the Parliamentary War Savings Committee. This poster is text only, with no images. The text runs from the top left corner to the bottom right corner and is printed in blue ...ARTV08174
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Young Harold Burke
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of Private Harold Burke. The son of George John and Annie Gertrude Burke of Melbourne, Harold enlisted in the AIF at the age of 21 in August 1914. Two months later he embarked for acti...P07989.001
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Young local woman crippled by chronic sores.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Young local woman crippled by chronic sores.A02838
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Young men of Briton. Listen! don't you hear your country calling...
Art
Maker: Unknown The Publicity Department, Central Recruiting Depot Andrew Reid and Co
British First World War recruitment poster issued by the Publicity Department of the Central Recruiting Depot in Whitehall. Text only the poster features a poem by H.C Hemy addressed to the ' Young Me...ARTV00979
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Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) billiard room at the 12th Training Battalion. Hanging on ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) billiard room at the 12th Training Battalion. Hanging on the wall is a reminder of the YMCA motto, 'Talk clean, live clean, fight clean, play the game'.D00230
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Young Workers Patriotic Guild button, Education Department of Victoria: Miss Ruth Cambridge
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Domed round brass badge with a bronze finish, impressed centrally with a honey bee, accompanied by the words 'EVD Young Workers Patriotic Guild' around the circumference. A stickpin is soldered to the...REL41893
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Your Country's Call
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee
Depicts a member of the Scottish infantry gesturing to an idyllic scene behind him of a small country town nestled amongst green rolling hills. With his right hand, he points to the town, and his lef...ARTV03933
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Your Country's Call
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Jowett & Sowry
Depicts a member of the Scottish infantry gesturing to an idyllic scene behind him of a small country town nestled amongst green rolling hills. With his right hand, he points to the town, and his lef...ARTV00428
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Your country wants you and 300,000 more men like you
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Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee C.W. Faulkner & Co.
British recruiting poster produced by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. This is a text-based poster, with no images, and uses alternating text sizes, and colours, to draw the attention of the e...ARTV08149
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"You're proud of your pals in the army..."
Art
Maker: Unknown South Australian Government A Vaughan Government Photolithographer
First World War enlistment poster, produced both in Britain and Australia. The poster plays on notions of guilt and loyalty between mates. The poster is text, based, with no illustrations; however, t...ARTV08948
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"You're proud of your pals in the army..."
Art
Maker: Unknown South Australian Government A Vaughan Government Photolithographer
First World War enlistment poster, produced both in Britain and Australia. The poster plays on notions of guilt and loyalty between matesFirst World War enlistment poster, produced both in Britain and...ARTV05636
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Your King and country need you: enlist now
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee L S & Co.
Published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Poster No. 5), this First World War British poster aims at encouraging men to enlist in the army. The primary text is printed in blue and is set ag...ARTV08138
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Your King and country need you join the army until the war is over
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd
British recruiting poster produced early in the war by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Poster No. 3). This is a text-based poster employing alternating red and blue text to provide visual inte...ARTV08154
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Your king and country need you join the army until the war is over
Art
Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd
British recruiting poster produced early in the war by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Poster No. 3). This is a text-based poster employing alternating red and blue text to provide visual inte...ARTV04879
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Your pal in the trenches is waiting to shake hands with you...
Art
Maker: Unknown Her Majesty's Stationary Office James Walker Ltd
British First World War recruitment poster issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office. It features an outstretched right hand of a soldier in khaki held out in greeting in the upper third. The title , ...ARTV06286
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Yours Ever
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features both blue and pink and white flowers tied up with a purple ribbon. The message "Yours Ever" is framed with a...RC05813
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Yours ever
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features both blue and pink and white flowers tied up with a purple ribbon. The message "Yours Ever" is framed with a...SC00195
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Yours not to do and die, Yours but to go and buy Victory Bonds
Art
Maker: Unknown Canadian Government Unknown
Canadian First World War poster issued by the Government to promote the sale of Victory Bonds to finance the war effort. As in other Commonwealth countries Canadian Victory bonds were loans offered by...ARTV00470
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Ypres
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Printed silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features an image of the damaged Cloth Hall in Ypres. The postcard is woven in shades of red and grey to evoke the sense ...RC01636
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Ypres brooch : Sergeant J E Buttsworth, 30 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Horizontal leaf shaped silver brooch. Attached across the centre of the brooch is a rose gold scroll impressed with the word 'YPRES'. There is a pin fastening on the back of the brooch.REL31862
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Ypres Cloth Hall Key
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rusted key with oval shaped hole handle and two pronged key insert.REL38764
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Ypres Silk Postcard
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered postcard made during the First World War. This postcard features the Ypres coat of arms with a silk fern leaf on a blue background.RC05784
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Yser Canal (French Side) Boezinge.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Yser Canal (French Side) Boezinge.H04299
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Zakariah. At the cookhouse of the drivers of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade, an ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zakariah. At the cookhouse of the drivers of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade, an unidentified driver cooks a meal while two others look on. The drivers returned to Egypt with the horses w...C00304
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Zakariah. Egyptians employed by the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade cleaning up the camp ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zakariah. Egyptians employed by the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade cleaning up the camp horse lines.C00310
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Zakariah. Shelters constructed by the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade in the camp at ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zakariah. Shelters constructed by the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade in the camp at Zakariah, Egypt.C00312
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Zanzibar, East Africa. Group portrait of the ships company of HMAS Pioneer on the fore deck ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zanzibar, East Africa. Group portrait of the ships company of HMAS Pioneer on the fore deck looking back towards the bridge. During 1915 and 1916 Pioneer remained off German East Africa, now Tanzania...P03687.003
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Zapisujcie sie na czlonkow Czerwonego Krzyza [Polish Red Cross]
Art
Maker: Unknown
Polish post-First World War poster for the Red Cross. The Polish Red Cross, Polski Czerwony Krzyz in Polish, abbreviated to PCK, was founded in 1919 by Dr. Benjamin Reschovsky of Warsaw City Hospital ...ARTV10344
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Zeebrugge - Le Waterloo de la Marine
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown
Book relating to the First World War service of Temporary Lieutenant John Howell-Price, Royal Naval Reserve. This book produced by the Zeebrugge museum, and covers the Naval Raid of the Belgian port o...AWM2018.785.42
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Zeichnet kriegsanleihe [Subscribe to the War Loan]
Art
Maker: Unknown Unknown Emil Hochdanz
Public subscription to a series of nine war loans provided over 60% of Germany's war costs. Posters promoting war loans aimed to empower and mobilise the civilian public, and became more aesthetically...ARTV10353
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Zionist Jewish settlers celebrating the entry of British forces into Jaffa. A British flag is ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zionist Jewish settlers celebrating the entry of British forces into Jaffa. A British flag is flying from a bell-tower, and Australian soldier bandsmen, probably of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade, can be...P08397.017
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Zonnebeke and Broodseinde Ridge, near Ypres in 1919.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zonnebeke and Broodseinde Ridge, near Ypres in 1919.J06405
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Zonnebeke Pill Box, used as a stretcher bearer's relay post during the Third Battle of Ypres.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zonnebeke Pill Box, used as a stretcher bearer's relay post during the Third Battle of Ypres.C04575
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Zonnebeke Road and the remains of a church.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zonnebeke Road and the remains of a church.J06407
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Zouaves of the French Army carrying their heroic flag which is decorated with the Croix de Guerre ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zouaves of the French Army carrying their heroic flag which is decorated with the Croix de Guerre and was presented to reward acts of bravery on the battlefield.A03515
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Zouaves trench on Dead Man Hill 304. captured in August 1917.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Zouaves trench on Dead Man Hill 304. captured in August 1917.H04335