The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Standard short double loop brass bugle with silver mouthpiece. Outside of bell is engraved 'Henry Potter & Co 30 Charing Cross London 1898 NSW G 1.1900'. The body is heavily tarnished, is missing the mouthpiece safety chain and is fitted with a pair of green cords.
Related to the Boer War service of 404 Bugler Herbert V Masters, New South Wales Medical Corps. The Second Contingent of the New South Wales Medical Corps embarked from Sydney on 17 January 1900 in SS Moravian. They disembarked at East London, South Africa on 22 February and proceeded to Sterkstroom. There they were attached to General Gatacre's column. Part of the contingent stayed at Sterkstroom. The rest advanced with the column to Bloemfontein. Some of the contingent embarked from Cape Town in SS Harlech Castle on 3 November 1900, arriving at Sydney on 8 December. The Main portion of the contingent embarked over a month later on 13 December 1900 in SS Orient, arriving at Sydney on 8 January 1901. Smaller units of the Second Contingent returned in SS Tongariro and SS Wilcannia.
Informal portrait of Trumpeter Herbert Victor Masters, New South Wales Army Medical Corps, of Sydney, NSW. He is holding a cavalry trumpet, and a bugle hangs from the loop of cord over his shoulder. H
Brass hat badge featuring a star with a voided cross of St George within a garter bearing the motto 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE'. The garter is surmounted by a Queen Victoria crown and framed by a laur
Queen's South Africa medal with clasps for 'SOUTH AFRICA 1901', 'DIAMOND HILL', 'JOHANNESBURG', 'ORANGE FREE STATE' and 'CAPE COLONY'. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. The reverse of th
Steel folding hoof pick. The hook-shaped pick is held by a pin in a loop handle, and swivels open or closed. The pick is held in either position by two sets of lugs on the handle. The handle is impres
Cigarette lighter made from a .303 cartridge. A flint wheel has been soldered to the side of the casing, which is engaged by a threaded screw at the bottom of the wheel's housing, and the projectile c
Oom Paul style pipe with full bent neck attached to a threaded vulcanite stem. The pipe has a pierced brass hinged bowl cover and brass stem collar. An illegible name is engraved on the stem collar. T
Bronze lapel badge with the King's crown above a shield which contains the letters 'S.A.S.A.' and enamelled stripes of red, blue and yellow. These colours represent the ribbon of the Queen's South Afr
