Items tagged australian military forces in MV Collections
Search the collections
(showing 1 - 8) 8 items
-
Machine Gun - Nordenfelt, 5 Barrel, .45 Calibre, 1887
Nordenfelt quick firing machine gun, .45 calibre, 5 barrels (side-by-side), mechanically operated. Made in Britain, 1887. Enscribed: "ENFIELD 1887 NORDENFELT No 26 Mark II Cwt Qrt Lb ...
Images: 13 -
Rifle - Martini Henry Carbine, 1880
Carbine Martini-Henry Mk 1 Artillery. Model W/Victorian Artillery markings No 25. Acquired with a Victorian Artillery uniform, circa 1890.
From: Enfield, United Kingdom Images: 2 -
Gatling Gun - Armstrong Mitchell, 1884
Armstrong Mitchell Gatling gun with 10 barrels within brass jacket, made in 1884. The Gatling gun is an semi-automatic early machine gun, apparently first used in combat in the Americ ...
Images: 3 -
Badge - 'YES', Pro Conscription, World War I, 1914-1918
Badge worn in Australia during World War I, in favour of conscription. 'Yes' badges like this one are far more common than the 'No' variety. In 1916 the Australian Government, under P ...
Images: 1 -
Badge - 'Remember Anzac', post 1916
Alternative Name(s): Button Metal badge, in colours of brown, grey and white, showing a scene of the beach on Gallipoli, with some white and brown tents in the foreground. The text on ...
Images: 2 -
Badge - 'Fall in! Britain's Call is God's', World War I, 1915
Alternative Name(s): Button Metal badge, in colours of red, white, blue, black and gold, with an image of the Union Jack fluttering in the wind, surrounded by symbols of Scotland, Engl ...
Images: 2 -
Badge - Soldiers' Home League, 'Faith in the Justness of Our Cause', circa 1917
Alternative Name(s): Button Metal badge featuring an allegorical female figure of Faith with a brown veil over her head. The badge was sold to raise funds for the Soldiers' Home League ...
Images: 2 -
Badge - S.A. Wounded Soldiers Fund, circa 1915-1918
Alternative Name(s): Button Small metal badge depicting an Australian soldier in uniform on the battlefield, in front of a red Australian flag which is drooping in the mud. Smoke from ...
Images: 2
