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A batman preparing a bath for his officer in an oil sheet in the cramped quarters of the front ...
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Maker: Unknown
A batman preparing a bath for his officer in an oil sheet in the cramped quarters of the front line trenches.A00784
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Aerial view seen after the capture of Oosttaverne Line, looking east from behind Messines. The ...
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Maker: Unknown
Aerial view seen after the capture of Oosttaverne Line, looking east from behind Messines. The British barrage at Messines 6 p.m. 7 June 1917 which covered the British centre and the left of the 4th A...J00272
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A German Pillbox on the Messines Road. The signboard reads: 'Ploegsteert Wytschaete'. From the ...
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Maker: Unknown
A German Pillbox on the Messines Road. The signboard reads: 'Ploegsteert Wytschaete'. From the collection of Mr Alfred Thomas Sharp. Mr Sharp was the Commonwealth Immigration Officer of Victoria and ...J00656
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An aerial view of artillery bombardment taking place at Messines. The information in white at ...
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Maker: Unknown
An aerial view of artillery bombardment taking place at Messines. The information in white at the top right hand corner describes elements such as the orientation of north [the axis pictured]; 42 B 1...A02816
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An unidentified Australian soldier (left rear) checking the bodies of dead Germans scattered ...
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Maker: Unknown
An unidentified Australian soldier (left rear) checking the bodies of dead Germans scattered outside a concrete pillbox. The enemy were among the hundreds killed when underground mines were detonated...A00791
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Bombadier Walter Fenton relates his experiences with the 36th Heavy Artillery Group during the First World War
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Maker: Fenton, Walter Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Relates his experiences with the 36th Heavy Artillery Group during the First World War. Walter Fenton discusses: early life in India; emigrate to Australia 1910; prewar employment; enlist in the Citze...S02041
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Bottle of cyllin : Captain R C Grieve, 37 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Small glass beaker with cork stopper and a handwritten paper label which reads 'POISON / CYLLIN / Not to be taken.' The beaker is full of a dark solidified substance.RELAWM01109.004
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British steel helmet with battle damage : Messines
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Badly damaged British steel helmet with a large irregular hole in the right front of the crown, and several other dents. No liner or chinstrap are present, although a small piece of leather remains at...REL29549
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Captain C H Stubbings, 52 Battalion, AIF
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British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL34080.003
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private J S Egan, 45 Battalion, AIF
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British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. The suspender has been snapped off and is missing.REL38139
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private S C Nolan, 25 Battalion, AIF
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British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL37375.002
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British War Medal 1914-20: Second Lieutenant Cedric Lloyd Charles Lowden, 36 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914- 1920. Impressed around the edge with the recipient's details.REL/01266.001
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Temporary Corporal W P Marr, 36 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL34284.001
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Warrant Offier 1 G Snowdon, 7 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31504.002
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Distinguished Conduct Medal : Lance Corporal W F George, 9 Australian Field Ambulance, AIF
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Distinguished Conduct Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.RELAWM16232
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Distinguished Service Order : Lieutenant Colonel H A Goddard, 35 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Service Order (Geo V). Unnamed as issued.REL/03882.001
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Driver Edward D. Eastham relates his experiences with the 3rd Division Artillery Column during the First World War
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Maker: Eastham, Edward D Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Edward Eastham discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlistment in December 1915; training at Codford Britain; impressions of France; mud; detonation of Messines mines in 1917; recalls the Somme, ...S02040
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Field communion bag : Corporal W S Dawe, 32 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
White canvas duffle bag with drawstring around the top and four pockets on the inside. On one side the words '2016 W.S. DAWE 3/32 Battalion 8 Brigade' have been written in faded ink.REL29281
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Flask : Private A Washington, 14 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Glass hip flask with leather cover over upper half and removable pewter base. The base is engraved with a geometric design along the top as well as a floral pattern. The design is on the front and bac...REL35352
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German pedal gong captured near Warneton, France
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Maker: Unknown
German pedal gong. A sheet of metal is attached to a wooden frame and is used as a gong. The gong is rung by the pedal contraption attached to a gong beater. Painted vertically in white paint on the g...RELAWM04091
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Identity disc with medalets : Corporal W S Dawe, 32 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Circular aluminium identity disc engraved with '2016 SGT. W.S. DAWE 32 BATTALION'.The disc is threaded through a cotton tape with two attached enamelled medalets. The first is a red shield with a whit...REL29282
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Images from album of Robert Cecil King
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Maker: Unknown
Unidentified Australian officers and civiliins near an aircraft. "Flight Photograph" An album containing various black and white images relating to the town of Armentieres, bombed buildings, trench in...P05997.107
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Messines road sign
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Maker: Unknown
Steel directional sign taken from a Belgian road. The white painted surface is stencilled in black serif characters on one side with the words 'MESSINES 3.5 K', while the other side is hand painted in...RELAWM10718
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Military Cross and Bar : Lieutenant C W Stoerkel, 48 Battalion, AIF
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Military Cross and Bar (Geo V). Unnamed as issued.REL/14389.001
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Military Cross : Captain C H Stubbings, 52 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Cross (Geo V). Privately engraved reverse with recipient's details.REL34080.001
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Military Cross : Captain H J Harrison, 37 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Cross (Geo V). Engraved on reverse with recipient's details.REL33397
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Military Cross : Warrant Officer 1 G Snowdon, 7 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Cross (Geo V). Engraved reverse with recipient's details.REL31504.001
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Military Medal : Corporal J O'Donnell, 4 Pioneer Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL41035
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Military Medal : Private F H Binns, 35 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35864.001
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Military Medal: Private P Davey, 10 Battalion, AIF
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Military Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.RELAWM16838
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Military Medal: Sergeant P C Statton, 40 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL23654.002
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Military Medal : Sergeant W Oswald, 13 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.RELAWM16585.002
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Mr A T Sharp is examining a cross at Messines Ridge Cemetery in Belgium. The cross marks the ...
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Maker: Unknown
Mr A T Sharp is examining a cross at Messines Ridge Cemetery in Belgium. The cross marks the grave of one of the soldiers who was buried in the battlefield and subsequently moved to the cemetery. Th...J00655
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Newspaper article relating to Percy Lay, 1956
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown
Photocopy of a newspaper article relating to the First World War service of Captain Percy Lay, 8th Battalion. The file consists of a photocopy of an article by Frank Green and Ernest W Latchford, tit...RCDIG0000457
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Next of kin plaque : Lance Corporal Liscombe Reginald Emanuel Spiller, 27th Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. ...REL45404
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Next of kin plaque: Private William Banko, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. ...REL46337
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One of the first German Pillboxes captured by Australian troops during the Messines Campaign. The ...
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Maker: Unknown
One of the first German Pillboxes captured by Australian troops during the Messines Campaign. The bodies of six dead German officers lie in front of the structure. It was later converted to an Austral...J00786
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Plaque from 1 Australian Tunnelling Company memorial : Hill 60
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Maker: Unknown
Rectangular enamelled steel dedication plaque containing the details of 14 of the 29 Australians killed serving with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company during 1916-1917. Sections of enamel are miss...RELAWM05099.001
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Plaque from 1 Australian Tunnelling Company memorial : Hill 60
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Maker: Unknown
Rectangular enamelled steel dedication plaque containing the details of 15 of the 29 Australians killed serving with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company during 1916-1917. Sections of enamel are miss...RELAWM05099.002
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Plaque from 1 Australian Tunnelling Company memorial : Hill 60
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Maker: Unknown
Enamelled steel dedication plaque from the original memorial commemorating the 29 Australians killed serving with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company during 1916-1917. Large sections of enamel are m...RELAWM05099.003
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Portrait of 16225 Private (Pte) Reginald George Makepeace Fuller, Australian Army Medical Corps ...
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Maker: Unknown
Portrait of 16225 Private (Pte) Reginald George Makepeace Fuller, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), of West Adelaide, SA. A carpenter and keen yachtman prior to enlistment, he embarked with the Ge...P07524.001
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Section of German barbed wire : Messines
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Maker: Unknown
Length of square core wire, with dozens of barbs twisted around its length, very close together. The barbed wire is rusted.RELAWM10784.001
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Section of German razor wire : Messines
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Maker: Unknown
Flat, rusted piece of sheet steel, die cut along the long sides to create jagged barbs, giving an exagertaed saw edge appearance. Some of these barbs have been twisted.RELAWM10784.002
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Sign : British notice board, 'Ploegsteert'
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Maker: Unknown
Wooden rectangular street sign painted white with 'Ploegsteert' written in black paint.RELAWM00666
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Stretcher: 10th Australian Field Ambulance, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Stretcher made from canvas and two wooden poles. Sixteen names have been carved into the underside of the wooden poles. The stretcher is battered and blood-stained.RELAWM09800
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Studio portrait of Francis Joseph Betts
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Maker: Unknown Unknown
Pre-enlistment studio portrait of 530 Private (Pte) Francis Joseph Betts, 42nd Battalion. Pte Betts, a labourer from Nobby in Queensland, enlisted on 26 October 1915 and embarked from Sydney aboard H...P10738.001
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Studio portrait of 1725 Private George Brown, 4th Replacements, 9th Battalion, of Roma, Qld. He ...
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Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of 1725 Private George Brown, 4th Replacements, 9th Battalion, of Roma, Qld. He enlisted on 22 January 1915. On 25 February he transferred to the 49th Battalion. He was an acting La...A00595
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Studio portrait of 4557 Private (Pte) Cyril Mear, 47th Battalion. A British born migrant from ...
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Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of 4557 Private (Pte) Cyril Mear, 47th Battalion. A British born migrant from Derbyshire, Mear worked as a farmer in Maleny, Queensland prior to enlisting on 9 September 1915. While se...P07949.001
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Studio portrait of 470 Private (Pte) William Hampstead Field, 43rd Battalion. A native of Clare, ...
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Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of 470 Private (Pte) William Hampstead Field, 43rd Battalion. A native of Clare, South Australia, Field had been a stockman, manager of a pastoral property, and a Mounted Police Consta...P06358.001
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The 'bird cage', showing German prisoners who were captured during the Messines offensive, laying ...
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Maker: Unknown
The 'bird cage', showing German prisoners who were captured during the Messines offensive, laying on the ground next to the wire fence. Note the white red cross arm band on the New Zealand soldier (c...A00782
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The unidentified quartermaster and staff of the 16th Battalion, AIF, sitting on the edge of a ...
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Maker: Unknown
The unidentified quartermaster and staff of the 16th Battalion, AIF, sitting on the edge of a trench. A wooden handle and a battery or can are to the left and a push bike is on top of a pile of sand ...A00785
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Three unidentified members B Company, Australian support line in the Messines sector. From the ...
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Maker: Unknown
Three unidentified members B Company, Australian support line in the Messines sector. From the collection of Mr Alfred Thomas Sharp. Mr Sharp was the Commonwealth Immigration Officer of Victoria and w...J00787
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Trench sign "Medicine hat trail" : Lieutenant Colonel J B St Vincent-Welch, 13 Field Ambulance, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Sign constructed of single plank of wood painted black with bevelled edges. 'MEDICINE HAT TRAIL' is stencilled in white letters. The white paint is considerably faded with black starting to show thro...RELAWM06262
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Victory Medal : Captain C H Stubbings, 52 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL34080.004
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Victory Medal : Private S C Nolan, 25 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL37375.003
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Victory Medal: Second Lieutenant Cedric Lloyd Charles Lowden, 36 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/01266.002
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Victory Medal : Temporary Corporal W P Marr, 36 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL34284.002
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Victory Medal : Warrant Officer 1 G Snowdon, 7 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31504.003
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William R Bowman relates his experiences as a gunner, 8th Field Artillery Brigade, First World War
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Maker: Bowman, William R Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
William Bowman discusses: early life; reasons for enlisting; enlistment and training; joined unit at Messines; German breakthrough at the Somme in 1918; the "big push" on 8 August 1918; description of...S02030
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Wooden cross marking the graves of 1896 Private (Pte) David Peacock, 2357 Pte Bruce Cairns ...
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Maker: Unknown
Wooden cross marking the graves of 1896 Private (Pte) David Peacock, 2357 Pte Bruce Cairns Marshall and 2104 Pte Ernest Bernard Luecke all of the 38th Battalion. Pte Peacock, a dairyman from East Brun...P00156.076