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Improvised pipe: unknown private, 2/48 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Carved wooden pipe - the bowl and shank are carved from a hard wood, with the shank joineded with a piece of brass bullet cartridge, and the stem carved from a piece of bone. The joint between the bra...RELAWM20164
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Improvised postcard from Gallipoli
Published Collection
Improvised postcard made from cardboard from a cigarette box. At Gallipoli paper was scarce, so men had to use what they could find in order to write to their loved ones. This Postcard is dated 9 July...RC02748
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Improvised POW smoking pipe: Lance Corporal Victor Stuart McComb, 22nd Infantry Brigade
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Smoking pipe, a variation on the apple shape, apparently turned from the leg of a teak billiard table. The neck is straight and the joint between bowl and shank is covered by an aluminium band. The bo...REL/00408
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Improvised prisoner's smoking pipe: Lintang Barracks, Kuching, Borneo
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised smoking pipe with an octagonal bowl and an octagonal shank. This is likely made from wood local to Borneo. The mouthpiece appears to be fashioned from a piano key or similar; it has yellowe...REL/01992
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Improvised prisoner's smoking pipe, Lintang Barracks, Kuching, Borneo
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised prisoner's smoking pipe, the bowl crudely shaped like an elongated hexagon. The shank has split and there is what appears to be a repair along the split line. The stem is a length of bamboo...REL/01990
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Improvised prisoner's smoking pipe, Lintang Barracks, Kuching, Borneo
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised wooden pipe with a vaguely octagonal shape bowl. The shank is reinforced with a wrapping of cotton drill fabric overlaid with what appears to be latex (this was very common at this camp as ...REL/01989
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Improvised prisoner's smoking pipe: Private Peter Albert Hocking, 2/2 Pioneer Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Hocking, Peter Albert
Bowl and shank only of a hand made smoking pipe, fashioned from teak, with the missing stem made out of water buffalo horn. The bowl shape bears a resemblance to a pot style of pipe. The shank has a t...REL/01787
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Improvised prisoners' smoking pipe: Staff Sergeant Arthur Cyril Robinson, 8 Division Signals
Heraldry
Maker: Robinson, Arthur Cyril
Crude smoking pipe with shank made from local clay and fired. The pipe was used with the stem (REL/1961.003) which also served another pipe. The interior of the bowl contains tobacco residue.REL/01961.001
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Improvised smoking pipe: Private William Charles Barton, Armoured Car Regiment, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pipe bowl which appears to be of commercial manufacture of the billiard shape, but was made from native wood, with the stem fashioned from a very long length (270 mm) of copper pipe, probably from a w...REL/15886
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Informal portrait of two unidentified Australian soldiers at rest, smoking pipes, in a dugout. ...
Photograph
Maker: Lovett, Arthur John
Informal portrait of two unidentified Australian soldiers at rest, smoking pipes, in a dugout. One of a collection of photographs thought to be taken by 440 Trooper (Tpr) Arthur Lovett, 3rd Light Hors...P11232.001
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Inscribed silver vesta fob case : Private J W Anderson, I Victorian Contingent
Heraldry
Maker: Minshull & Latimer Pty Ltd
Rectangular sterling silver vesta match holder, supplied with a silver suspension ring to the proper right side. The lid is sprung while the base is equipped with an inset tooth pattern to aid in the ...REL23629
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'It's not what you were- but what you are today-'
Art
Maker: Hewkley, F Paget
A portrait of a man wearing a monocle, civilian clothes and a hat, next to him are the words 'It's not what you were'. Below this image is another portrait of the same man smoking a pipe, wearing a s...ART00021.004
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Japanese handmade Hanafunda playing cards
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
An incomplete set of handmade Japanese Hanafunda playing cards. There are only 10 (40 cards) of the expected 12 (48 cards) suits of four cards each. Each suit consists of four identically marked cards...REL/02916.001
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Japanese Kinshi brand cigarette box, Zentsuji Prisoner of War Camp : Lieutenant W H Larkin, Lark Force
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small rectangular shaped green coloured Japanese cigarette box made from light cardboard. The front of the box features a bird in flight below two Japanese written characters and below the bird are v...REL33281
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Jerry can shaped cigarette lighter : D S Gibbons, Photojournalist
Heraldry
Maker: Copley Hill Company Inc
Cigarette lighter shaped like a jerry can with a flip-up lid. Maker's details and name of lighter ('GAS CAN') cast into base.REL33485
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Letter from Cuthbert Clive Finlay to Director, Australian War Memorial, 1929
Digitised Collection
Maker: Finlay, Cuthbert Clive
Letter relating to the First World War service of 2nd Lieutenant Cuthbert Clive Finlay, 17th Battalion. The letter was written by Cuthbert Finlay to the Director of the Australian War Memorial on 9 D...RCDIG0000175
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Lieutenant Colonel J H Peck
Art
Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Peck, CMG, DSO, General Staff 5th Division, working at AIF headquarters St Gratien. Peck (1886-1928), was born on 22 July 1886 in Sydney. He enlisted as a gunner ...ART02485
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Lighter : Hugh King Ashby, Singapore Straits Volunteer Force
Heraldry
Maker: Ashby, Hugh King
Handmade lighter contructed from various pieces of brass. The base is a long barrel section which holds the lighter fluid. A small brass ring screws into this barrel and also connects to the lighter m...REL31502
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'Magazine' cigarette case: Driver Harold Benjamin Edgcumbe, 12th Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cigarette pocket holder in the form of six tubes soldered together. Each tube has a cap at its base and two double-sided, elongated slots ether side of its length. The other end of each tube is open. ...REL/05858
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Matchbox cover : Warrant Officer A K Hutton, 2/3 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Three sided metal match box cover with a decorative green trim. Both sides are printed with a humorous cartoon. The first shows a man passing by in the background carrying a suitcase marked 'W.C.'. A ...REL32638