Sword Bayonet, Pattern 1907, Mark I. with hook on crosspiece : recovered from Ak Bashi, Gallipoli

Pattern 07 bayonet with ring and mortise slot with locking bolt to secure the bayonet to the rifle nosecap. The single edged blade is fullered on both sides for about 300 mm. The hilt has plain wooden grips held to the tang with two screw bolts. The cross guard has a muzzle ring and hooked quillon.

The cross guard is stamped '2MD29116'. One side of the ricasso is stamped with a cross between two seven pointed stars, each with an 'A' within them. Beneath this is a small shield with an 'L' within it. The other side of the ricasso is stamped with a shield within which is the date '1907' and the number '1'. Beneath this is the text '13.4 / LITHGOW'.

Australian bayonet found with its scabbard at a Turkish dump at Ak Bashi, near Maidos by members of the Australian War Records Section (AWRS) or Australian Historical Mission (AHM) before their departure from Gallipoli in March 1919.

The small party of AWRS staff, led by Lieutenant William Hopkin James, worked on Gallipoli between December 1918 and late March 1919, taking photographs and collecting items for the national collection. The AHM, led by Official Historian C E W Bean, visited Gallipoli from February to mid March 1919 to collect items for the nation, to record the area through artworks and photographs, and to explore the battlefields to answer some of the 'riddles of Anzac' for the Australian official history of the war.

Ak Bashi was once known as Sestos. It was famous for being the site of the Greek myth of the doomed love between Hero, a priestess of the goddess Aphrodite, who lived at Sestos, and the youth Leander, who lived on the other side of the strait at Abydos.

• Scabbard Mark II. for Sword Bayonet, Pattern 1907, Mark I. with hook on crosspiece : recovered from Ak Bashi, Gallipoli