Fragment of leather legging from Bapaume Town Hall, 1917: Trooper Eugene Vogel Finster, 13 Light Horse Regiment, AIF

Rectangular fragment of brown leather legging impressed on one side with 'E V FINSTER / L H'.

Associated with 98 Private Eugene Vogel Finster, 2 Field Ambulance and 13 Light Horse Regiment, AIF. He enlisted on 19 August 1914. He was involved in the German mine explosion at Bapaume late in March, 1917, which destroyed the Town Hall. Wounded, he returned to Australia on 22 July 1917 and was discharged on 30 October 1917. It appears from correspondence on file that this piece of legging was excavated from the vicinity of the town hall in 1931 and returned to its original owner soon after.