The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Pattern 07 bayonet with ring and mortise slot with locking bolt to secure the bayonet to the rifle nosecap. The single edged blade is fullered on both sides for about 300 mm. The hilt has plain wooden grips held to the tang with two screw bolts. The cross guard has a muzzle ring and hooked quillon.
The cross guard is stamped '2MD29116'. One side of the ricasso is stamped with a cross between two seven pointed stars, each with an 'A' within them. Beneath this is a small shield with an 'L' within it. The other side of the ricasso is stamped with a shield within which is the date '1907' and the number '1'. Beneath this is the text '13.4 / LITHGOW'.
Australian bayonet found with its scabbard at a Turkish dump at Ak Bashi, near Maidos by members of the Australian War Records Section (AWRS) or Australian Historical Mission (AHM) before their departure from Gallipoli in March 1919.
The small party of AWRS staff, led by Lieutenant William Hopkin James, worked on Gallipoli between December 1918 and late March 1919, taking photographs and collecting items for the national collection. The AHM, led by Official Historian C E W Bean, visited Gallipoli from February to mid March 1919 to collect items for the nation, to record the area through artworks and photographs, and to explore the battlefields to answer some of the 'riddles of Anzac' for the Australian official history of the war.
Ak Bashi was once known as Sestos. It was famous for being the site of the Greek myth of the doomed love between Hero, a priestess of the goddess Aphrodite, who lived at Sestos, and the youth Leander, who lived on the other side of the strait at Abydos.
Steel mounted black leather scabbard with a tear drop shape frog stud on the locket. The locket and chape are attached by wire lace. Australian scabbard found with its bayonet at a Turkish dump at A
Pattern 07 bayonet. The hilt has plain wooden grips held to the tang with two screw bolts. The cross guard has a muzzle ring and a hooked quillon. The pommel is stamped with an arrow in a D. The blade
British Pattern 07 Bayonet (hooked quillon) for use with Lee Enfield .303 rifle. Wooden grips attached with 2 bolts. Pommel, tang, guard and base of blade are blued. Various marks and ciphers stamped
British Pattern 07 Bayonet. The hilt has a hooked quillon crossguard and the pommel is stamped NSW 5517. The grips are plain wood held to the tang with two screw bolts. The blade is straight with a si
British Pattern 07 Bayonet. The hilt has a hooked quillon crossguard and the pommel is stamped SA.5663. The grips are plain wood held to the tang with two screw bolts. The blade is straight with a sin
British Pattern 07 Bayonet. The hilt has a hooked quillon crossguard and the pommel is stamped SA 1445. The grips are plain wood held to the tang with two screw bolts. The blade is straight with a sin
