The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Damaged cone shaped brass nose cap fuze from a fired artillery shell. Around the edge of the nose cap are numerals in Arabic script. Scratched into the base of the nose cap is 'BEACHY BILL'.
This damaged brass nose cap fuze was recovered at Gallipoli during 1915. The gun responsible for firing it at the Allied beach head was popularly known as 'Beachy Bill'. Beachy was based to the south of the Anzac beach head at Gaba Tepe in a position which was heavily used throughout the campaign to rain indirect and direct artillery fire into the Anzac beach positions. This particular battlefield relic was recovered by then Major George Cattell Somerville, who was the Adjutant of the 6th Light Horse Regiment.
Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915. A water convoy of mules at 1st Division Headquarters, AIF, at White's Valley resting outside Major Somerville's dugout. The men are emptying a canvas water bag into a dixie. I
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. November 1915. AIF officers Major G.C. Somerville, Colonel C.H. Foott and Padre W.E. Dexter at the entrance to a dugout at Anzac. (Donor F.T. Small)
The front section of a nose fuze used to detonate a Turkish artillery projectile. The conical shaped fuze component is 81 mm long and consists of the brass nose section set above four brass rings. The
Fired metal nose fuze from a German made artillery shell. Around the edge of the nose fuze cap is impressed a scale from 20 to 48 (200 to 4800 metres). These lines are used to indicate at what range
Tail of improvised aerial bomb made from a French Mortier de 58 mortar shell. The tail is made from a cylinder of plate steel with the edges roughly soldered together. On top of this is a dome shaped
Brass indirect fire gun sight, as fitted to German manufactured howitzers. The sight is shaped in the form of a 180 degree protractor. Two scales are engraved around the curved edge. These are etched
Light field artillery piece. Horizontal sliding breech. Steel box carriage, with two wooden spoked wheels. Breech is stamped with the gun number: 35, and Friedrich Krupp, Essen, 1913. The weight of t
Short Magazine Lee-Enfield No 1 Mk III* bolt action rifle. Receiver marked with a crown over GR BSA 1916 Sht LE III* under the bolt arm and the serial number on the breech ring. It has a walnut butt,
