Sword frog : Second Lieutenant W A Macintosh, 26th Battalion, AIF

Brown leather sword frog stitched down both sides, with a brass 'D' attached to the top. The two angled straps with brass buckles for attachment to a Sam Browne belt are sewn to the frog in a 'V' shape, meeting in a brass post. The back has the number '3' and a broad arrow symbol in the angle made by the 'V' shape stitching. Written in pencil on the right strap is 'WAM' ; just above this is 'W A MACINTOSH'.

William Alexander Macintosh was twenty seven year old solicitor from Barcaldine, Queensland, when he enlisted in the AIF on 1 July 1915, at Brisbane.

Appointed a second lieutenant at the end of October, he sailed with the 8th reinforcements to the 26th Battalion in March 1916 and arrived at Etaples, France on the 5 April. Macintosh was taken on strength with his battalion in mid May . On 17 17 July he was admitted to the 16th General hospital at Le Treport with mumps. After recovering, Macintosh spent some time at the 2nd Division base and at the headquarters of the 1st ANZAC Corps before returning to his unit on the 16 September 1916.

On the 14 November Macintosh was killed in action near Dernancourt, while leading a fatigue party between Cobham and Carlton Trenches. The location of his burial was lost and his name is recorded on the Villers Brettoneux Memorial, which commemorates Australians with no known grave.