The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Trench art slouch hat with Rising Sun badge made from shell parts. The slouch hat comes with a contemporary note handwritten on the back of an envelope listing the items that the hat has been made from: 'Crown of hat. Nosecap of British 18 lb shell-. Rim of hat. Shell Case of German 8.9 shell. Rim around hat [puggaree] driving ban[d] of German 13 lb shell. Badge Aus. badge beaten down.' Additional text 'Copper from German aeroplane' has been crossed out. The edge of the hat's brim has been engraved with a zig zag 'sewn' design, resembling the edge of original slouch hats.
The history of this piece of trench art is unknown, but is typical of the more elaborate pieces made by individual soldiers.
Australian fur felt slouch hat with a khaki cotton pugaree and gilded brass 'Rising Sun' badge. The left brim of the hat has been pinned to the side of the crown by the badge. Four small ventilor hole
Australian Military Forces khaki felt slouch hat, with the rising sun badge. The hat is constructed from a single panel of press shaped animal fur felt. The central oval shaped crown has straight side
Worn and stained khaki fur felt slouch hat with a leather sweat band, and a hat band made from a length of khaki wool puggaree. The crown has split and been roughly repaired with stitching inside befo
Khaki fur felt slouch hat with domed crown, grosgrain ribbon bound brim and leather sweatband. Crown of the hat has four tiny rivetted ventilation holes. The front of the hat has holes where the hat b
Khaki fur felt slouch hat. The hat has a set of three plastic covered brass eyelets on either side and the left side has a brass stud fixed in the centre for securing the left brim to the crown. There
Slouch hat complete with khaki cotton puggaree, brown leather chinstrap and copper Rising Sun badge. The puggaree has a 1945 pattern Australian Army Medical Corps unit patch sewn to it. The leather sw
