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Cardboard Australian flag improvised for the visit of Prime Minister W M Hughes to France : 7 Infantry Brigade, AIF
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Maker: 7th Infantry Brigade Staff
Improvised Australian flag made from reddish brown cardboard, giving a 'red' Australian ensign effect to the 'flag'. The stars, each with seven points, have been cut from paper and pasted onto the car...RELAWM01068
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Improvised cricket bat : Corporal Frank Beatie Davidson, 56 Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Davidson, Frank Beatie
Cricket bat handcrafted from a branch of silver birch. The face of the bat has been roughly planed down but the back remains curved with the tree bark intact. The handle is also uneven but has been sm...RELAWM01048
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Improvised cricket bat: 10 Light Horse Regiment, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Cricket bat made from the blade of an old bat and an improvised handle. The back ridge of the blade has been planed down at the top and a wooden handle has been spliced mid way to slot over the top of...RELAWM01049
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Improvised grater : Rhododendron Ridge, Gallipoli
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Maker: Unknown
Rectangular piece of tin sheet, possibly cut from an army biscuit tin, with a roughly rolled bottom edge. In the centre of the sheet a roughly rectangular section has been crudely punched with holes t...RELAWM00305
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Improvised metal 'no admission' sign : The Nek, Gallipoli
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Maker: Unknown
Rusted metal sign with several small shrapnel holes. One one side has the following text painted in white 'NO ADMITTANCE / UNLESS EMPLOYED / IN TUNNELS. / BY ORDER / O.C. / DIV. ENGRS.'. The other sid...RELAWM00420
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Improvised sign : 7 Company, 104 Reserve Regiment, Imperial German Army
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Maker: Unknown
Improvised trench sign made from a cross section of raw timber cut from a tree, the bark of which is still present around most of the edge. The face of the timber has been ruled with pencil lines to s...RELAWM00889
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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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Model laminate wooden tube, prosthetic limb : Sergeant A Worsfold, AIF Research Section, Imber Court Experimental Grounds
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Maker: Worsfold, Alexander
Wooden tube, made with a 6mm thick wall laminated from glued layers of thin wood. The tube was presumably constructed in this manner to combine strength and lightness.REL/01579.002
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Oversized wooden novelty 'cut thoat razor', HMAT Marathon 'crossing the line ceremony': Captain Charles Henry Linklater, 33rd Battalion, AIF
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Maker: Unknown
Oversized wooden 'cutthroat' or 'straight' razor, measuring 73 cm long when fully opened. The wooden 'blade' has been painted silver (although much has worn away) and overpainted with dabs of brown pa...RELAWM09891
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Trench marker, 'Q5 to Firing Line' : Shell Green, Gallipoli
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Maker: Unknown
Rectangular Shell Petroleum tin adapted to make an illuminated trench marker. The front and back of the tin are impressed 'SHELL MOTOR SPIRIT'. The sides are both impressed 'SHELL'. The top of the tin...RELAWM00418
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Turkish improvised wooden trolley : Lone Pine, Gallipoli
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Maker: Unknown
Improvised trolley made from two wooden, unpainted, Turkish Mauser ammunition boxes. One box has had a long side removed before being attached to another box to create the body of the trolley. This ha...RELAWM00331