The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
1898 Model steel bladed spade (entrenching tool) with wooden shaft housed in leather Model 1909 cover. Spade could be attached to belt or knapsack using the leather carrier.
Entrenching tool used by the German army. It was collected by a member of 45 Battalion. The spade could be attached to a belt or knapsack using the leather carrier.
Folding entrenching tool with canvas cover. The entrenching tool is painted dark green and has a wooden handle attached with two rivets to the steel pick and shovel head. The green canvas cover has a
Imperial German Army entrenching tool. The spade-like tool has a fixed wooden handle ending in a ball finial, and a square tipped steel blade. This entrenching tool is thought to have been brought t
Rusted cast iron 1908 pattern entrenching tool head. Both the spade and pick ends have been damaged by shrapnel. The ferrule, also damaged and distorted by shrapnel damage, is wedged into the entrench
Rusted cast iron 1908 pattern entrenching tool head. The spade end has been damaged by shrapnel, as has the hole where the helve (handle) would be placed. The spade is impressed with a partially legib
Corroded British pattern 08 cast iron entrenching tool head. The spade-like tool is intact, but the helve (wooden handle) is missing. An entrenching tool was issued to each Australian infantryman a
The spade-like tool has a fixed wooden handle ending in a ball finial, and a 'V' head steel blade. The lower half of the handle is encased in a metal sleeve secured by a steel collar. The blade is sec
