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Collection
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Anti climb hook : Changi Gaol
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Curved steel hook from the inner wall of Changi Gaol. The hook, which was previously cemented into the wall, appears to have been removed with a welding torch, giving a melted and discoloured finish t...REL33235.002
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Anti climb hook : Changi Gaol
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Curved steel hook from the inner wall of Changi Gaol. The hook, which was previously cemented into the wall, appears to have been removed with a welding torch, giving a melted and discoloured finish t...REL33235.001
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Australia Service Medal : Driver R H Coyte, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL36147.005
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Australia Service Medal : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL34162.004
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Australia Service Medal 1945-1975 : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal 1945-1975. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL34162.005
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Autographed good luck flag : Sergeant N M Cohen, 8 Division HQ
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Unknown Japanese soldier's autographed national flag, with a central inset red cotton disc. There are numerous slogans and signatures written on the flag in black ink characters. The top right corner ...REL45907
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Driver R H Coyte, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL36147.004
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL34162.003
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Signalman H W Almond, 8 Division Signals, AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35413.003
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Cell door : Changi Gaol
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Blue painted metal reinforced timber door and frame with brass handles, locks and steel fittings. On the very top edge of the exterior side of the door is a 40 mm (height) x 60 mm (width) rectangular ...REL33237
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Cell door number plate : Changi Gaol
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brass number plate attached to the door of a cell at Changi Gaol. The rectangular plate has a screw hole at each corner, with the numeral '3' impressed in the centre. The numeral is picked out in blac...REL33236.002
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Cell door number plate : Changi Gaol
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Brass number plate attached to the door of a cell at Changi Gaol. The rectangular plate has a screw hole at each corner, with the numeral '1' impressed in the centre. The numeral is picked out in blac...REL33236.001
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Civilian internees cotton armband : B392 Ruth Frances Brown, Yanchow Camp, Shanghai.
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Red cotton lace-up armband with black printed number 'B392' on outward facing surface. White tape letter 'F' on inward facing surface. Black ink circular stamp 'BRA - BRITISH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION OF ...REL25090
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Clarinet in case : Signalman H W Almond, 8 Division Signals, AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Boosey & Hawkes Ltd
Clarinet in plastic with plated metal keys and mouthpiece cover. Each separate section of the clarinet (mouth piece, barrel joint, body and bell), is impressed with serial number 34651. The upper body...REL35412
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Corona Four Typewriter : Captain M B Tindale, British Commonwealth Occupation Force
Heraldry
Maker: Smith-Corona Typewriters
Black non-folding, manual, portable, desktop typewriter complete with wooden and leatherette carry case. The aluminium and tin body is finished in black enamel paint. Forty two full size individual ke...REL38910
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Defence Medal : Driver R H Coyte, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL36147.003
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Dental Instruments : Surgeon Lieutenant S E L Stening, RAN
Heraldry
Maker: Glasgow, Robert Valentine
Three improvised dental instruments - a root elevator, excavator and scaler, made from fencing wire.RELAWM30730
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Dutch doll 'Hansie' : Miss Joyce Avasia, Chapei Internment Camp, Shanghai
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Carved wooden doll with painted face. This doll is dressed in traditional Dutchman's costume with a red cloth cap, checked shirt, blue neckerchief and baggy yellow trousers. Doll has one crocheted 'cl...REL27597
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Dutch silver jam spoon : Sister P Gunther, 2/10 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dutch silver jam spoon with an irregularly-shaped bowl. Silver marks impressed into the underside of the handle, indicate that the spoon was made in 1905 from Dutch second standard silver.REL28267
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Embroidered calico apron : Civil Internee Gwyneth Brown, Yangchow Camp, Shanghai
Heraldry
Maker: Brown, Gwyneth
Calico apron with neck loop and behind the back ties. There are numerous multi-coloured embroidered signatures, underlaid with the signatory's camp occupation, randomly scattered across the apron. 'YA...REL25088
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Embroidered signature apron : Jan O'Herne and Dutch women at Kamp 1A Ambarawa Internment Camp, Java
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Woman's white cotton apron with decorative blue edge of bias binding. The bib of the apron is embroidered in red and brown with 'Kamp 1A Ambarawa 1942', which has been underscored with a strand of emb...REL26397
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Flattened celluloid doll in paper wrapper : Private W C Davis, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small celluloid kewpie-style doll with painted face and string-jointed arms and legs. Reverse is moulded with maker's name (Fore ??) and a '3' in a diamond. The doll is wrapped in a small paper parcel...REL34430
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Handkerchief embroidered with signatures of Dutch 'Comfort Women' at the 'House of the Seven Seas', Semarang, Java
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Woman's white cotton handkerchief with a three band border. The edges have been decorated with aqua coloured button-hole stitching. Seven signatures in shades of blue, brown and violet, and the date '...REL26396
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Hand made cardigan : Methodist missionary Sister D E Wilson
Heraldry
Maker: Green, Mavis Fanny
Beige round neck cardigan with nine button holes but only six buttons. The top two buttons are close together and fasten the neck. The other four are evenly spaced down the front of the cardigan and t...REL/21740
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Hand-made jumper : Sister E M Callaghan, Australian Army Nursing Service (Lark Force)
Heraldry
Maker: Callaghan, Eileen Mary
Hand knitted and dyed pullover in pale green. The body and sleeves are made of hand woven cotton-wool knitted in stocking-stitch interspersed with lines of cable pattern. The cuffs and basque are of f...REL24311
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Handmade mug : Corporal J Howard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Howard, James
Drinking mug constructed with a soldered vertical lock seam and soldered handle, all made from stainless steel. Base is engraved 'E.W.B. / VX22206'. Scratched faintly adjacent to this is QX21513.REL34753
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Khaki fabric first aid pouch : Imperial Japanese Army
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Square khaki cotton fabric pouch with flap top. A leather tab closes the flap by fitting over a brass post. Japanese characters stencilled below the post read 'No 2 First Aid Pouch', but could also be...REL29109
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Pacific Star : Driver R H Coyte, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pacific Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL36147.002
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Pacific Star : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pacific Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL34162.002
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Pacific Star : Signalman H W Almond, 8 Division Signals, AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pacific Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL35413.002
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Pair of aluminium identity discs : Private W Davis, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pair of aluminium identity discs,; one round and one octagonal, joined by a brass link. Both are engraved 'NX40190 / CE / W DAVIS / O 4 / C Coy 2/18 Bn'. The reverse of the hexagonal tag is additiona...REL34429
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Pair of shorts : Driver M H Store, 2/3 Reserve Motor Company 8th Division AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Store, Mark Hill
Pair of hand made faded blue-grey cotton shorts. The exterior surfaces of the fabric is significantly faded with several parts of the internal facing giving an indication of the original dark blue-gr...REL45061
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Pencil : Sister A B Jeffrey, Australian Army Nursing Service
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Stub of yellow pencil with some manufacturer's markings visible along one side. At the end is scratched the first letters of the owner's name 'JEFFR'.REL28953
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Prisoner of War identity disc : Lieutenant L W Male, 8th Division AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Imperial Japan
A Japanese rectangular tin identity disc for a prisoner of war. The disc has 'Australian Officer' in the old form of kanji in black ink on the front. The lower edge of the disc is impressed with the A...REL34238
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Prisoner of war navigational device : J Collins, Burma Railway
Heraldry
Maker: Collins, J
A sphere and hemisphere of equal radii, each projected to a plane surface, complete with carefully inscribed parallels and meridians at selected intervals. The sphere represents the celestial sphere a...REL/12229
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Section of ulcerated tibia removed from a British POW : Lieutenant Colonel E E Dunlop, 2/2 CCS
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Large sequestrum (section of dead bone) from a tibia (shin bone) damaged by a tropical ulcer. The bone has irregular jagged edges and has been partially cut with a saw near a blue stain.REL26678
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Shorts : Bombardier J Keenan, 2/10 Field Regiment AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Keenan, James
Cotton hand made drawstring shorts made from a rice bag. The back pocket is missing on the right hand side but the mother of pearl button still remains.REL33944
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Signed handkerchief : Driver V C Ball, 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps, Gull Force
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Square plain white cotton handkerchief with 25mm wide hem. A felt colour patch (triangle, divided vertically into white and dark blue, on a grey background) of 1 Company, Australian Army Service Corps...REL31815
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Slouch hat : Captain S G Nottage, 'L' Heavy Battery, Royal Australian Artillery
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Khaki fur felt slouch hat. The hat has a set of three plastic covered brass eyelets on either side and the left side has a brass stud fixed in the centre for securing the left brim to the crown. There...REL/09721
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1939-45 Star : Driver R H Coyte, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL36147.001
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1939-45 Star : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL34162.001
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1939 - 1945 Star : Signalman H W Almond, 8 Division Signals, AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939 - 1945 Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL35413.001
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Unofficial Australian Ex POW Medal : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Tasmedals Pty Ltd
Unofficial Australian Ex POW medal. This medal is silver in colour and hangs from a ribbon with vertical green, grey, light blue, red, navy blue and yellow stripes. The green is representative of th...REL34162.008
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Unofficial Prisoners of War Medal : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Award Productions Ltd
Unofficial Prisoners of War medal. This medal is silver in colour and hangs from a red, green, black and white ribbon. The vertical stripes of red and green on the ribbon flank two thin white stripes...REL34162.007
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Unofficial Restoration of Peace Medal : Private J T Marsden, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Award Productions Ltd
Unofficial Restoration of Peace Medal. This medal is gold in colour and hangs from a maroon ribbon with a gold vertical centre stripe. In the middle of the suspender is a dove with a palm branch in it...REL34162.006