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  • Collection: Case 56 - Homefront, First World War

Round dish - a printed cartoon image of people hiding in a bunker with an explosion going off above them signed by the artist - sepia tones with black lines around the rim - no makers marks on reverse

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Below the knee amputation stump leg with iron bracing - fixed position type (no knee hinge)

Khaki green fabric belt, possibly canvas, with metal ends and metal slide. 31 Individual badges, metal.

Crochet with the wording 'Lord bless / waiting for the dawn of time / we want peace / with honour/ Blue felt backing encased in plastic sleeve sewn closed on two sides

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Side inscriptions: 'EDEN-MANLY-GARDENS Belgium fund (pound symbol)5/11/6 Collected 30 Sept [Belgium Flag& USA Flag]' 'Narrabeen Patriotic Continental October 3rd/14 Collected (Pound symbol)4', 'Arcadia Theatre Manly Patriotic Concert October 28th/14…

Made from an Australian half penny. Used as a token to be given to the support service corps companies, behind the front line, in payment for a bath and a clean exchange uniform.

Rectangle woven textile with embossed metal strips on top and bottom. Black woven textile showing yellow ANZAC rising sun motif with scroll reading ' AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES ' , underneath reads ' FOR AUSTRALIA ' , yellow flowering plant branch in…

Two fibre identity tags, connected by a leather tie. One tag circular and reddish in colour, the other octagonal and black/brown. "3353". Demonstrates proficiency in signalling.

01 : Circular grey metal coin, reverse shows raised portrait of two soldiers and a donkey and the text 'LEST WE FORGET', verso text reads 'TO COMMEMORATE GALLIPOLI 1915 - 1985'
02 : Brown sythnetic material case , gold lettering on top reads '…

Round dish with a printed image of a soldier looking into a plum and apple jam jar - sepia tones - Bairnsfathers Ware - Souvenir of the Great War on the Back - "When the 'ell is it goin' to be strawberry?" - makers marks on the reverse

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Vertical oval badge surmounded by King's crown. Top of oval border reads "ON WAR SERVICE"; bottom reads "1915". In the centre of the oval is a shield stamped with three cannons. On the back, "N" and "J.R. GAUNT & SON LTD. LONDON" are embossed. Raised…

Rounded metal badge topped with a crown 'RSA New South Wales' on the front and '2134' inscribed on back. Back pin has been broken off.

Dark reflective wooden club with turned handle; transfer image of King's Crown with initials 'G R' below crown; Rutherglen coat of arms; '1914-1919'
Label inscription: 'Scottish Constabulary Baton / Issued World War I 1914-1918 / Donated By / Flora…

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Badge of two crossed flags, brass with one enamel blue, and one enamel white with blue central blue stripe.

Felt hand made doll of Simpson a patient and donkey

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Badge of two crossed flags, brass, on a squared backing plate.

Button with writing 'The Lincoln Regt', 'Egypt'. Possibly brass.

Souvenir Billy Can, presented to the First World War Veterans of RSL Anzac Village

Union Jack flag , three frayed edges , fading on both sides with less fading where a small flag that is displayed on top of it sits , one side more faded than the other . White dots along one height edge , losses from the other height edge the…

Button with coat of arms from United Kingdom, possibly brass.

Vase in the shape of a head - brown hair bushy mustache and pipe - trench helmet with a hole blown out the front and back- Gun barrel at the back - text hand written around the shoulders ' Who told ye that one?' - full set of makers marks - signed…

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Elevated view of 60th Battalion AIF during Victory March down Swanston Street, about to turn into Collins Street, Melbourne, 1918.

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Peace ' with two flying doves on pedestal inscribed, PEACE / 1919 below AUSTRALIA; figure in chains on left and another entangled in bush to right (obverse)
Australian sailor and soldier support wreath; above, VICTORY; within, THE / TRIUMPH / OF /…
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