Model laminate wooden tube, prosthetic limb : Sergeant A Worsfold, AIF Research Section, Imber Court Experimental Grounds

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Accession Number REL/01579.002
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Heraldry
Physical description Wood
Maker Worsfold, Alexander
Place made United Kingdom
Date made 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Description

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.

History / Summary

This model illustrates one of the many inventions of 12096 Private Alexander Worsfold, 9th Australian Field Ambulance.