The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Aircraft message streamer constructed of two equal streamer lengths attached to a cotton weight pocket (weight missing). The streamer lengths are of red, white and blue fabric. The red or tail is plain weave red wool, the white is a buff coloured plain weave cotton and the blue closest to the weight pocket is a plain weave pale blue wool. The wools are possibly bunting. The coloured panels are hand stitched together with white construction thread. The weight pocket is constructed from two panels of white cotton cloth, machine-seamed on three sides. The remaining open side is stitched to the pale blue wool panels. The remaining edge has been shallow hemmed. The two tieing tapes are attached at the centre of this seam. The streamer is marked in pencil on reverse of pocket '32 DIV HQ'
Before the advent of reliable radio transmitters being fitted to aircraft, it was comon practice for aircrews to drop a handwritten message from the air to a recipient on the ground. The messages were contained in pockets, sewn into highly visible coloured streamers. This object is typical of the type. It originally contained a message confirming that the town of Mont St Quentin was in Allied hands and also the 'Aussies' were seen in Peronne.
Red, white and blue fabric message streamer. The two 'tails' are comprised of equal-length sections of fabric sewn together in a streamer. The fabric in the tail sections alternate between a hemp-like
Faded black cotton message bag constructed from a single length of black cotton sateen and stitched with cream cotton construction thread. The lower edge has been folded to form a 23cm pocket. The po
Rectangular lead weight taken from the front pocket of a Royal Air Force message streamer. The streamer from which this weight was taken (see REL26818.001) was used by a Royal Air Force RE8 aircraft
The flag is constructed from two triangular panels of cotton fabric. The top panel is black cotton sateen the lower red plain weave. The panels are joined along the centre with a French seam. Both lon
Model 1909 pattern pale khaki jacket, coarsely woven with fine cotton warps and slubbed wool wefts in a 3/3 twill. The single breasted jacket has a stand and fall collar with rounded points. Front of
Dark blue wool serge trousers with narrow scarlet superfine wool stripe extending down each side seam. Vertical welt pockets at each side seam lined with khaki plain weave, slubbed cotton. Black cellu
