The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pack of 52 hand made playing cards made from the backs of 'Lancers' cigarette packets (manufactured by Douglas Rhodes & Co Ltd, London), with finely drawn traditional markings in black, red and yellow ink. Each ace is marked in addition
within decorative scrolls '2/4th MACHINE GUN BATTALION POW CHANGI A.I.F.' and 'WX8384 PTE RBT. G. HENDERSON'. The triangular colour patch of 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion is also drawn on each ace.
Made in Changi using the backs of cigarette packets by WX8384 Private Robert G Henderson of 2/4 Machine Gun Battalion. He enlisted from Geraldton in Western Australia.
Twenty three hand drawn playing cards made from the backs of Three Castles cigarette packets. The cards are finely marked in black ink, pencil and coloured pencil and comprise a Joker, four Jacks, fou
Hand made folding cut throat razor. Steel blade, made from a ground down vehicle spring, folds on a steel pivot, into an aluminium handle made from wrecked aircraft parts. One side of the handle is en
Pack of 52 commercially produced playing cards with blue patterned backs. The Ace of Clubs shows a pair of rabbits underneath a crescent moon with 'PLAYING CARD No.202 MANUFACTURED BY CHENG SING INDUS
Hand engraved aluminium cribbage board mounted on wood. There is a small aluminium plate screwed to each end of the board that swivels to reveal a storage space for the scoring pegs. The top plate is
Brown folding leather wallet. Faded gold lettering on the bottom right corner reads 'TO WILLIAM HOLT. FROM HIS COMRADES BERRY SILVER BAND'. The inside of the wallet is lined with brown cotton material
Circular colour patch for 4 Division Machine Gun Company and 24 Australian Machine Gun Company, AIF, showing a central white circle on a black background, below which are two crossed guns in yellow.
