The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Rectangular piece of tin sheet, possibly cut from an army biscuit tin, with a roughly rolled bottom edge. In the centre of the sheet a roughly rectangular section has been crudely punched with holes to form a grater. The outer (grating) surface has a coating of rust.
An improvised grater, probably made from a section of army biscuit tin, which was manufactured by Australian or New Zealand troops serving on Gallipoli in 1915. The grater would have been used to pulverise the notoriously hard army biscuits so that they could be mixed with water to form a more easily consumed 'porridge'.
This grater was found in the trenches at Rhododendron Ridge (also known as Rhododendron Spur) by the Australian Historical Mission on 23 February 1919. The Mission, led by Official Historian C E W Bean, visited Gallipoli in February and 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.
Sign roughly made of sheet metal, probably taken from a biscuit tin, attached by two nails to a piece of timber which appears to have been part of a box. The metal has an overall patina of (inert) rus
Cast metal British wire cutters. The cutters are made from four pieces - two handle pieces and two cutting pieces. One of the cutting pieces can be adjusted to allow three different cutting positions.
Improvised metal and wood sign made from a piece of tin shaped over a 104 mm x 240 mm piece of wood . The sides of the tin have solder marks where it was once joined to other pieces of metal. The top
Improvised rectangular metal trench sign made from a kerosene or food tin. 'D9B' is roughly cut out of the metal in the style of stencilled letters and numbers. The corners have been cut diagonally an
Handmade rectangular tin sign of irregular shape. The words 'IVY / LODGE' have been produced by hammering a nail or centre punch to create perforations for the outlines of the letters. The sign has a
Discoloured white enamelled tin with surface with rust marks, and the following text printed on the front and back in black text and in white text bordered with black: 'NCI / DISINFECTING / POWDER /
