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A bronze plaque fitted to the base of the Memorial to the men of the 2nd Australian Division. It ...
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Maker: Unknown
A bronze plaque fitted to the base of the Memorial to the men of the 2nd Australian Division. It reads: 'Battle Honours 2nd Australian Division, August 8th 1918: Pozieres, Moquet [sic Mouquet] Farm, F...P02205.012
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Alban Pearce interviewed about his experiences in 24th Battalion AIF during the First World War
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Maker: Pearce, Alban Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office Pearce, Alban
Discusses: early life; enlistment after height restrictions lowered in August 1917; prewar employment; sergeant in Cadets; family's attitude to enlistment; cooking detail at Alexandria; guard duties a...S02077
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Bullet damaged soap container with lid : Lance Corporal D T P Wilson, 24 Battalion
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Maker: Unknown
Cylindrical metal container with separate domed lid. The body of the container just below the lid has been holed, torn and distorted by an bullet entrance hole and a separate exit hole. This damage ha...REL34386
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Distinguished Conduct Medal : Sergeant C T Law, 26 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Conduct Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL29730.001
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Distinguished Conduct Medal : Sergeant J G Tarrant, 20 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Royal Mint Unknown
Distinguished Conduct Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/21621.001
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Field message book: Sergeant Albert David Lowerson, VC, 21st Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Field message book with removeable brown fabric cover, carried by Sergeant Albert David Lowerson, with a bullet hole through the centre. Inside the cover is Lowerson's signature 'A B Lowerson VC'. The...RELAWM01094
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German casualty stretcher : 20th Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Camel coloured flexible canvas stretcher supported longitudinally by two wooden planks. The stretcher has a closeable double-flap canvas body to encompass the patient. The 'feet' end of the stretcher ...RELAWM00963
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German gas alarm klaxon captured at Mont St Quentin : 20 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Hand cranked, hand-held horn klaxon, comprising a cast steel cranking unit with an integral handle. Emerging from the rear is a rotating crank bar fitted with a shaped wooden handle. This unit is bolt...RELAWM04080
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Grave marker of eleven members of the 21st Battalion who were all killed in action at Mont St ...
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Maker: Unknown
Grave marker of eleven members of the 21st Battalion who were all killed in action at Mont St Quentin, France on 1 September 1918 and buried in a mass grave. Listed on the plaque are: 6817 Sergeant Co...P00808.001
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Graves of Austrailian soldiers at Mont St Quentin, near Peronne, France. From the collection of ...
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Maker: Unknown
Graves of Austrailian soldiers at Mont St Quentin, near Peronne, France. From the collection of Mr Alfred Thomas Sharp. Mr Sharp was the Commonwealth Immigration Officer of Victoria and was based in t...J00592
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Improvised surrender flag used by German soldiers at Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Unknown
Discoloured white triangle of cotton tied by the fly end to a roughly hewn stick. The edges of the fabric are not hemmed and there are a number of holes and tears.RELAWM00988
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Message streamer from Mont St Quentin
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Aircraft message streamer constructed of two equal streamer lengths attached to a cotton weight pocket (weight missing). The streamer lengths are of red, white and blue fabric. The red or tail is plai...RELAWM15926
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Military Medal: Corporal Francis George Clark, 20 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Military Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL49511.002
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Mont St Quentin grave cross: 21st Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Wooden grave cross. On the vertical arm of the cross is carved ’21ST BATT A.I.F’ and ‘KILLED IN ACTION 1918’. A small, rectangular, brass plate with the diamond colour patch insignia of 21 Battalion (...RELAWM00954
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Part of the Australian Cemetery at Mont St Quentin, France. The grave second from the left is ...
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Maker: Unknown
Part of the Australian Cemetery at Mont St Quentin, France. The grave second from the left is that of 1876 Corporal (Cpl) Alexander Henry Buckley VC, 54th Battalion. Cpl Buckley enlisted at Gulargam...J00593
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Portion of tree trunk with embedded artillery shell : 17th Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Portion of a tree trunk into which an artillery shell has penetrated. Attached to the top of the trunk by four tacks is a thin brass plaque into which is stamped 'COLLECTED BY 17TH BATTALION. / A.I.F....RELAWM00964
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Section of cast iron verandah post from house at Mont St Quentin, France
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Section of cast iron(?) verandah post from a French house. It has one even end and one irregular broken end. There is a tubular void through the centre. The hollow, cast, outer post appears to have b...RELAWM00993
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Shrapnel fragment, Western Front
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Maker: Unknown
Heavily rusted, jagged and irregular shaped fragment of shrapnel. Has small handwritten note attached ‘large fragment found at Villers-Bretonneux’. Shrapnel was found at Mont St Quentin in February 19...REL/00347
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Studio portrait of 5466 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) William Robert Bear MM and Bar, 23rd Battalion, of ...
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Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of 5466 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) William Robert Bear MM and Bar, 23rd Battalion, of Sandringham, Victoria. A leather worker prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 14th Reinforcements ...P07811.001
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Studio portrait of 190 Private (Pte) Septimus Clive Fishwick, 24th Battalion. A turner of ...
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Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of 190 Private (Pte) Septimus Clive Fishwick, 24th Battalion. A turner of Ballarat, Vic, he embarked with A Company from Melbourne aboard HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. After completin...P08156.001