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Collection
578 Results
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Australia Service Medal : Sister J K Greer, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL32722.005
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Australia Service Medal : Staff Sergeant L B Laker, 2/2 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31745.005
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Autographed and embroidered nurse's veil : Sister J M Loutit, Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Nurse's white cotton veil embroidered with many coloured signatures of Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit (MAETU) nurses, pilots and AIF personnel. The key seems to indicate that nurse's signatures...REL25741
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Autographed and painted handkerchief made and sent by members of 8 Division in Malaya, 1941 to Miss Betty Guthrie
Heraldry
Maker: Nash, (Given names unknown)
Olive green cotton army issue handkerchief with drawings and autographs in indelible blue/purple ink. Down the centre of the handkerchief is an AIF soldier carrying a rifle, running through jungle. Be...REL29555
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Autographed Australian flag : Prisoners of war captured in Greece, 2/5 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Kettle, James Gerrard 'Jimmy'
Improvised Australian red ensign with a genuine piece of hemp flag halyard with metal fittings inserted into the hoist end. The main body of the flag is constructed out of one large and one small pane...REL28404
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Autographed Australian red ensign : Corporal W E Watson
Heraldry
Maker: Sydney S Calder Ltd
Australian red ensign bearing numerous signatures of Australian and Allied soldiers in ink and indelible pencil. Most of the signatures are on the front of the flag but a few are on the hoist and on t...RELAWM30267
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Autographed good luck flag carried by Japanese soldier Kawata Manjiro in Japan
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Japanese soldier's autographed national flag featuring numerous signatures in black ink. Two red seals of the Yasaka Shrine, probably the famous shrine in Kyoto are also printed onto the flag. Apart f...REL24540
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Autographed Japanese fundoshi : Signalman J Easton, 8 Division Signals
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Red cotton Japanese fundoshi, or loin cloth, with two self fabric ties across the top edge. The fundoshi bears the autographs, written in indelible pencil, of the surviving members of 8 Division Signa...REL33778
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Autographed Japanese undershirt : Private S Herron, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Japanese issue unbleached calico undershirt with a low stand collar, narrow yoke, single left breast pocket with a rectangular flap, and long sleeves without cuffs. The shirt fastens down the front wi...REL/01823
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Badge designed by a POW at Doberitz Germany : Second Corporal A B Mason, 14 Field Company Engineers AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Round silver badge with an enamelled blue and white 'coat-of-arms' designed by British prisoner of war, Cecil A. Tooke, of the Royal Naval Division. The crossed pick and shovel means that the N.C.O.'s...RELAWM15379
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Bag for chess pieces : Gunner W A Bryant, 2/15 Field Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Bryant, William Arthur
Bag for chess pieces made from a khaki cotton shirt sleeve cut off at the elbow and roughly tacked across to form a seam. The cuff has the remains of a drawstring that would have been used to hold the...REL30131
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Bakelite picnic plate : Captain A L Walker, 2/1 Machine Gun Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Peter Pan Brand
Small green bakelite picnic plate "Peter Pan Ware N.Z. 57' is moulded into the base. A small section of the underside has been heat-affected, resulting in a blistered whitened surface, while the base ...REL41694
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Bar of toilet soap made at Changi Prisoner of War Camp soap factory
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Bar of toilet soap made in the Changi Prisoner of War Camp Soap Factory. Originally brown but now with a grey external film. One end has partially broken away. Original hand written label has stuck to...RELAWM27459
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Bar of washing soap made at Changi Prisoner of War Camp
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Bar of washing soap made at the Changi Soap Factory. Originally brown, but now with a grey external film. The original hand written label has stuck to the bar and is no longer legible.RELAWM27461
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Basin, Gustrow POW camp : Private H Horner, 3 Machine Gun Company, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small blue enamelled steel basin with a lip for pouring and two raised handles. The handles and rim are enamelled black.RELAWM10295.001
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Billy Can : Lieutenant Colonel E E Dunlop, 2/2 CCS
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Galvanized iron billy can with a top wired edge, a Pitsburg vertical seam and a hand hammered knocked edge for the base. It has a wire handle.RELAWM31377.001
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Blanket : Gunner D F Spark , 2/2 Australian Field Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Handmade and hand-dyed coarse weave goat's wool blanket made in Crete. Predominate colours are red, orange, black and blue in a plain horizontal stripped design with a zigzag band detail along the top...REL42431
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Boot used to smuggle diary out of Turkey : Captain T W White, Australian Flying Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Standard issue, brown leather army ankle boot, without toe cap, for the left foot. There are nine eyelet holes on each side of the front opening. laced with flat cotton laces, which are not original. ...RELAWM08188
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Bottle of German POW distilled spirits, HMNZT Willochra : Major I Isaacson, Special Service, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Metal container made of tin containing spirits. The body is a piece of long rectangular tin shaped into an oval and soldered along the long edge in the middle back of the container. Soldered to each e...RELAWM12206
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Boxed pack of playing cards, MV Wanganella : Sister S Muir, 2/13 AGH, AANS
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Boxed pack of Huddart Parker Line playing cards. On the back of each card is an image of ship MV Wanganella with the words, 'M.V. WANGANELLA HUDDART PARKER LINE'. There are 52 playing cards and two jo...REL35612