The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Ring made from a copper driving band from a shell. The ring has a join at the back and horizontal and vertical markings along its length.
Associated with the service of Charles William Lenton who enlisted in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF) (Tropical Unit) 'C' Company on 12 August 1914 and was assigned the service number 382. He was 23 years old and had previously served 12 months with the Naval cadets. He embarked with the ANMEF to capture German New Guinea on 19 August 1914 on board HMAT Berrima. Lenton returned to Australia and was discharged from the ANMEF on 4 March 1915.
He re-enlisted into the Australian Imperial Force, with the service number 1354, on 19 April 1915. Lenton embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Ceramic on 30 June 1915 with D Company 18 Battalion. He arrived at Gallipoli via Egypt in August 1915 and may have taken part in the battle for Hill 60. At some time during his service on the peninsula he found this simple trench art ring on the body of a Turkish soldier at Gallipoli and was sent home to his Mother.
Lenton was admitted to hospital with deafness in September, rejoining his unit at Gallipoli on 11 November 1915. After the evacuation in December he returned to Egypt. Lenton transferred to 5 Machine Gun Company in March 1916 before leaving Egypt for service on the Western Front. On 16 June 1917, while he was on leave, he married Barbara Emily Austen, a Sydney born girl living in England. Three months, on 9 October, Private Lenton was killed in action at Zonnebeke, Belgium.
Ring with a face of a horned man, together with an accompanying handwritten note describing the circumstances of its acquisition by Driver Berg. Ring associated with the service of 1134 Driver Marti
Rose gold ladies finger ring with inset light and dark blue enamel panels forming the colour patch of 13 Battalion. Stamped on the inside is 'REG.NO.2128' and 'S.BROS.9C'. 1762 Private Edgar Cecil J
Brass finger ring with an embedded round turquoise blue coloured stone on the face. On either side of the stone is an engraved or impressed design. Souvenir finger ring associated with the service o
Aluminium ring with a copper insert in the shape of a downward pointing arrow This ring is thought to have been made by 107 Driver William Francis Teague, born in Sydney on 30 June 1889, a married p
Webbing waist belt containing a regimental badge and buttons from various units. The brass buckle and tongue of the belt are both intact. The only regimental badge on the belt is for the Royal Enginee
Aluminium signet ring with a small brass German army button attached to the front. The button bears the Prussian crown. This ring is thought to have been made by 107 Driver William Francis Teague, b
