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41 Results
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Australia Service Medal : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL39516.006
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Australia Service Medal : Private R R Trotter, 8 Division Ammunition Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL38150.004
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Australia Service Medal : Signalman R C Ingram, 8 Division Signals, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL33291.005
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Autographed and painted handkerchief made and sent by members of 8 Division in Malaya, 1941 to Miss Betty Guthrie
Heraldry
Maker: Nash, (Given names unknown)
Olive green cotton army issue handkerchief with drawings and autographs in indelible blue/purple ink. Down the centre of the handkerchief is an AIF soldier carrying a rifle, running through jungle. Be...REL29555
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Autographed Japanese fundoshi : Signalman J Easton, 8 Division Signals
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Red cotton Japanese fundoshi, or loin cloth, with two self fabric ties across the top edge. The fundoshi bears the autographs, written in indelible pencil, of the surviving members of 8 Division Signa...REL33778
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Britannia brooch : Signalman E J Fox, 8 Division Signals
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Gilded metal brooch showing Britannia above a boomerang. Britannia holds a laurel branch in her right hand and a trident in her left. The trident's fork has broken off at the shoulder. Next to her is...REL/12930
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL39516.005
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Private R R Trotter, 8 Division Ammunition Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL38150.003
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Signalman R C Ingram, 8 Division Signals, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed on edge with recipient's details.REL33291.004
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Coolie basket : Private L G Gaffney, 8 Division Employment Platoon
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rattan 'coolie basket' with two carrying handles and an open 'shovel' shaped side.REL46833
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Cribbage Board : Signalman W J McPherson, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Handmade aluminium cribbage board with four panels of punched out holes for the pegs, grouped in three sets of ten holes for each panel. The board is hand engraved with a thatched hut, palm trees and...REL29050
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Defence Medal : Signalman R C Ingram, 8 Division Signals, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed on edge with recipient's details.REL33291.003
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Embroidered map of Australia : Corporal E G P Sullivan, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Sullivan, Edward Gordon Patrick (Pat)
Embroidered Commonwealth Bank cotton cash bag. One side is printed with the bank's details. The other is heavily embroidered with mercerised cotton embroidery thread in shades of red, pink, mauve, gre...REL/03670
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Engraved tobacco tin : Sergeant W O Wald, 8th Division Signals, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small aluminium tobacco tin with separate lid. Engraved on the four sides of the lid is, 'BURMA MALAYA THAILAND SINGAPORE'. The sides of the tin are also engraved with, 'W WALD NX58914 8 [illegible] ...REL39900
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Folding fan : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Wooden folding hand fan with 21 leaves. Each leaf is identically decorated with a series of pierced patterns, which differ from the endguard pattern. A small piece is broken from the top corner of one...REL39520
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Hand made playing cards : Major B A Hunt, 2/13 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Twenty three hand drawn playing cards made from the backs of Three Castles cigarette packets. The cards are finely marked in black ink, pencil and coloured pencil and comprise a Joker, four Jacks, fou...REL/04536.001
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Home-made POW shorts : Driver D S Shipston, 2/105 General Transport Company, Australain Army Service Corps
Heraldry
Maker: Shipston, Donald Saxon
Pair of shorts made from light-weight khaki cotton, probably material from a shirt. The shorts have a waistband and are fastened with a tab fitting on each hip which closes using a handmade celluloid ...REL/04071
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Improvised Melbourne Cup : Lieutenant W E Peck, Lintang Prisoner of War Barracks, Kuching, Borneo
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised trophy cup made from an empty bully beef tin that has had the label and lid removed. This is mounted on a wooden stem which slots into an octagonal wooden base with a roughly shaped top edg...RELAWM24544
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Inlaid wooden tray: Craftsman William John Brown, 2/4th Field Workshop
Heraldry
Maker: Brown, William John
Rectangular teak tray composed of a base with a smaller rectangular inner tray secured to it from beneath with screws. The tray has shaped raised sides, also secured with screws, with handles set into...RELAWM31832
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Melbourne Cup awarded for a Frog Race Meeting run by the Adam Park Racing Club, Singapore, 1942
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Improvised trophy cup made of two parts of a coconut shell joined together in the centre by a nut and bolt. Each side of the cup has a curved metal handle attached by two small nuts and bolts. The cup...RELAWM31985
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Miniature yard broom : Lieutenant Colonel F G Galleghan, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Changi Broom Factory
Long bristled split rattan broom with a two part wooden head. There is a hole in the head to take a handle. The bristles are secured to the head by two steel wires. They are further secured, to stop ...RELAWM31828.004
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Miniature yard broom : Lieutenant Colonel F G Galleghan, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Changi Broom Factory
Miniature yard broom with coconut fibre bristles and a wooden head. There is a hole in the head to take a handle. Head is made in five pieces and is secured by fine steel pins and staples. Marked in p...RELAWM31828.002
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Miniature yard broom : Lieutenant Colonel F G Galleghan, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Changi Broom Factory
Long bristled split rattan broom with a two part wooden head. There is a hole in the head to take a handle. The bristles and head are secured by steel wire and two steel strips around each end. The he...RELAWM31828.003
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Miniature yard broom : Lieutenant Colonel F G Galleghan, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Changi Broom Factory
Miniature split rattan broom head, without handle, in a traditional 'witch's broom' shape. The bristles are bound at the head with fine copper wire.RELAWM31828.005
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Pacific Star : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pacific Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL39516.004
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Pacific Star : Private R R Trotter, 8 Division Ammunition Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pacific Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL38150.002
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Pacific Star : Signalman R C Ingram, 8 Division Signals, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pacific Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL33291.002
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Peaked cap : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australian Army khaki wool serge peaked service dress cap with oxidised brass rising sun badge and leather chinstrap. The chinstrap is attached to a small oxideised Australian Military Forces button a...REL39560
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Presentation box of miniature brooms : Lieutenant Colonel F G Galleghan, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Changi Broom Factory
Small wooden box with a flat lid attached with three leather hinges and steel nails. The lid is marked in pencil '"Search & Sweep" CHANGI BROOM FACTORY "UBIQUE BRAND"'. The box was made to contain fou...RELAWM31828.001
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Presentation wooden box : Private R J Mitchell, 8 Australian Divisional Ammunition Sub Park, AASC
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Hand-made wooden box with a YMCA badge on the lid. There is a metal plaque on the front with the words, 'RONALD MITCHELL 1st Place Tenor Solo A.I.F. P.O.W. Camp Singapore 1942'. These words are also p...REL36512
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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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Saxophone case : E J Banks, Changi Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Black painted wooden case with a hinged lid, dovetailed corners, two hooks at the front for closure, and a steel carrying handle wound around with narrow width sticking plaster to give additional grip...RELAWM32797.002
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Silk pincushion : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pincushion covered with silk fabric. The orange centre has the miniature figures of eight children attached around the circumference.REL39521.003
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Silk pincushion : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pincushion covered with silk fabric. The white centre has the miniature figures of eight children attached around the circumference.REL39521.002
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Silk pincushion : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Pincushion covered with silk fabric. The burgundy red centre has miniature figures of eight children attached around circumference.REL39521.001
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1939-45 Star : Corporal J C Clarke, 8 Division Command Pay Office
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL39516.003
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1939-45 Star : Private R R Trotter, 8 Division Ammunition Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL38150.001
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1939-45 Star : Signalman R C Ingram, 8 Division Signals, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939-45 Star. Impressed on reverse with recipient's details.REL33291.001
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Tin of Johnson's Baby Powder : Corporal A W L Webber, Headquarters, 8 Division AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Johnson & Johnson Pty Ltd, Sydney
Small, mildly corroded rectangular tin of Johnson & Johnson baby powder. Most of the original label has disappeared from the body, but a small portion of red and white chequer pattern remains around t...REL48052
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Woven cellophane belt: Driver Mark Hill Store, 2/3 Reserve Motor Transport Company, 8th Division
Heraldry
Maker: Store, Mark Hill
Woven belt made from folded sections of clear cellophane originally used to wrap packets of cigarettes. Cut out paper numerals and letters have been inserted into individual sections of the cellophane...REL45060
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Wrist watch presented by US Major General J M 'Skinny' Wainwright IV : Gunner Cecil Neathway Beatton, Royal Australian Artillery Headquarters
Heraldry
Maker: Tissot
Rolled gold wrist watch with rectangular watch case and adjustable semented band. The copper-coloured rectangular face has Roman Numerals and a rectangular subdial to count seconds where the number VI...REL44149