The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tear drop shaped horse shoeplate. There are three holes on either side to attach the shoe to the horse's hoof with nails and a hole in the centre approximately 16 mm in diameter. The pointed rear (heel) end of the shoe is bent upwards. The horseshoe is rusted and corroded.
Turkish horse shoes found at a dump at Chain Burnu, near Maidos in January 1919 by members of the Australian War Records Section (AWRS). The small party of AWRS staff, led by Lieutenant William Hopkin James, worked on Gallipoli, taking photographs and collecting items for the national collection from December 1918 to March 1919.
Horseshoe plate, roughly shaped like a tear drop. There are three holes on one side and four on the other to attach the shoe to the horse's hoof with nails and a hole in the centre approximately 19 mm
Tear drop shaped horseshoe plate. The rounded front of the horseshoe has been crudely cut straight. There are three holes on either side near the front of the shoe to attach it to the horse's hoof wit
Remains of a Turkish soldier's open shoe made from thick cow hide. The body of the shoe is cut from one piece of leather and is gathered into shape around the upper edge by means of a leather thong th
Damaged and badly corroded Turkish water bottle, which is badly misshapen due to battle and environmental damage. It also contains many bullet and shrapnel holes. The edges of the oval top and bottom
Turkish cast iron artillery projectile with a rounded nose and four ridges along the side. The projectile is 75 mm diameter. The head of the shell is truncated, bored out to approx 22 mm diameter, an
Oval, British army issue dixie lid. The rim is folded over a 3 mm wide length of wire around the entire edge of the lid. The wire is exposed on each of the longer sides, to which heavy gauge wire hand
