The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bundle of short lengths of Turkish barbed wire. The square profile wire has long barbs twisted around it.
Barbed wire cut to pieces by rifle, machine gun and shell fire. It was collected at Johnston's Jolly, Gallipoli, on 8 January 1919 by members of the Australian War Records Section (AWRS). A small party of AWRS staff, led by Lieutenant William Hopkin James, worked on Gallipoli between December 1918 and March 1919, taking photographs and collecting items for the national collection.
Johnston's Jolly was a Turkish position which they called Kirmezi Sirt (Red Ridge). The ANZAC troops named it after Colonel George Jamisson Johnston, who commanded field artillery overlooking the position, which he used to 'jolly up' the Turks.
Bundle of lengths of Turkish barbed wire. The wire is made from lengths of square edged wire that has been twisted to create a cork screw look, with barbs twisted around the length of wire. German b
Two pieces of barbed wire. One piece consists of a single length of wire with barbs located along the length. The other piece consists of two lengths of wire, lightly twisted together, with barbs atta
Two sections of German barbed wire wrapped around pieces of wood. The larger piece, measuring, 35.5cm length x 15.5cm width x 17.6cm depth, is made from two lengths of wire twisted together wrapped ar
Folded bundle of lengths of rusted wire netting, or 'chicken wire'. There are two short lengths of British barbed wire woven into the netting, some thinner pieces of wire through part of the bundle wh
Hook shaped length of barbed wire, which has a heavy gauge square section wire strand at its core, and long barbs. This piece of barbed wire was collected from the beach at Gaba Tepe by the Australi
Length of square core wire, with dozens of barbs twisted around its length, very close together. The barbed wire is rusted. This piece of German barbed wire is from Messines. It is made from a squar
