The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Square playing board designed to fold in half. The reverse of the board is finished in dark green, while the playing surface is printed with a basic race game layout of 67 yellow playing spaces running in a circular route between Start and Home. There are 27 blank playing spaces and the remainder are printed with instructions which will affect the player's progress.
These include 'Enlisted'; 'Rejected (go back to start)'; 'Absent without leave (Go back to 5)'; 'Arrived Gallipoli'; 'Promoted to Lieutenant'; 'Evacuated Gallipoli'; 'Wounded at Fleurbaix (return to 28)'; 'Pozieres captured'; 'Awarded MC (two throws)'; 'Bapaume captured'; 'Passchendale battle (Awarded DSO. Two throws)'; 'Promoted to Major'; 'Battle of Hamel (Awarded VC)'.
The remainder of the board is decorated with ten full-colour illustrations of First World War incidents, mostly of a general patriotic 'Empire' nature. They depict troops training at camp; a 'British dirigible'; a 'British airplane'; a 'British destroyer'; 'Battle of Jutland'; 'Capture of a Zeppelin'; a troopship disembarking at an Australian port; 'returning from trenches'; and two images which are inspired from photographs: 'Emden on shore - Keeling Island' (see AWM image H18852) and 'Entry of Australians into Bapaume' (see AWM image E00426 - the 5th Brigade band).
Provenance unknown. The style of printing and layout suggest that the game was manufactured by National Games Company, of Melbourne, whose designer was Christopher George King. The game is a unique immediate post-war example of an Australian game featuring many of the First World War battles which Australians remembered.
Playing board designed to accompany the child's game entitled 'Target for Tonight'. The board is a square playing cork or compressed fibre board, wrapped in paper printed with nine illustrated targets
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Boxed board game, rectangular format, entitled 'Strategy - A Game of Skill', which is printed in red on the lid. The lid is decorated with a black and white photographic image of three officers repres
A child's wooden board game, in the shape of a tombstone, being square on the bottom edge and curved at the top. It is made from a sheet of softwood with a seperately nailed-on thin raised timber edgi
Rectangular cardboard box containing 50 picture cards, a rule card and a booklet for six games that can be played with the EUCHIM game cards. The cards feature a blue fleur-de-lys pattern on the rever
A First World War era framed and glazed patriotic dexterity puzzle entitled "Trench Football" which requires the player to manipulate a small metal ball bearing around a recessed playing course, avoid
