The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.
Associated with the service of 108 Lance Corporal George Fullard Hamilton, born in Cambewarra, NSW in 1891. Hamilton, a 22 year old electrical mechanic, enlisted as a private with A Company, 1 Battalion on 17 August 1914 and embarked from Sydney on 18 October aboard HMAT Afric. After three months training in Egypt, Hamilton was promoted to lance corporal and proceeded to Gallipoli where his battalion took part in the second and third waves of the ANZAC landings on 25 April. In the fighting that follow the landing he received a gun shot wound to his right thigh and was evacuated to a hospital in Egypt, rejoining his battalion at Gallipoli on 21 May. Hamilton was killed in the early hours of the morning of 5 June while taking part in an attack launched from Steele’s Post on German Officers’ Trench. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.
1914-15 Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details. Associated with the service of 108 Lance Corporal George Fullard Hamilton, born in Cambewarra, NSW in 1891. Hamilton, a 22 year old electric
Circular bronze medallion surmounted by the Queen's crown. Obverse shows Simpson and his donkey assisting a wounded man, a laurel wreath, the date '1915' and the word 'ANZAC'. Reverse shows a map of A
Australian War Contingent Association gift tin with original chocolate contents, postcard and label. The rectangular gift tin is made of lacquered tin-plate and has a hinged lid printed in black with
Circular bronze medalet commemorating the first visit of the Commonwealth fleet to Sydney on 4 October 1913. The obverse shows the battle cruiser HMAS Australia with the Sydney shoreline in the backgr
Large Ottoman circular silver piastre coin pierced by small opening through the edge and threaded with short length of soiled, knotted, cotton twine. The obverse is embossed with a row of seven five-p
Outdoor portrait of a group of patients at the British Military Hospital, possibly at Alexandria, Egypt in hospital uniform, relaxing in the garden. Identified in the front on the right is 108 Lance C
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. Associated with the service of 108 Lance Corporal George Fullard Hamilton, born in Cambewarra, NSW in 1891. Hamilton, a 22 year old ele
Victory Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. Associated with the service of 108 Lance Corporal George Fullard Hamilton, born in Cambewarra, NSW in 1891. Hamilton, a 22 year old ele
1914-15 Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details. Associated with the service of 108 Lance Corporal George Fullard Hamilton, born in Cambewarra, NSW in 1891. Hamilton, a 22 year old electric
Circular bronze medallion surmounted by the Queen's crown. Obverse shows Simpson and his donkey assisting a wounded man, a laurel wreath, the date '1915' and the word 'ANZAC'. Reverse shows a map of A
Large Ottoman circular silver piastre coin pierced by small opening through the edge and threaded with short length of soiled, knotted, cotton twine. The obverse is embossed with a row of seven five-p
Australian War Contingent Association gift tin with original chocolate contents, postcard and label. The rectangular gift tin is made of lacquered tin-plate and has a hinged lid printed in black with
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. Frank Robert Symons was born at Alexandria, Sydney, in 1895. He trained as a wood turner after completing his education, an
