The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Gallipoli, Turkey. Two soldiers sit beside a pile of empty tins cutting up barbed wire for jam tin bombs. The bombs were made near the beach at Anzac Cove, a spot popularly known as the 'bomb factory'. All the old jam tins and other used containers were used to make bombs which were then filled with fragments of Turkish shells and enemy barbed wire which had been cut into small lengths.
A group of unidentified sailors, Australians and New Zealanders, making jam tin bombs near the beach at what was popularly known as the bomb factory. All the old jam tins and other used containers a
Two soldiers sit beside a pile of empty tins cutting up barbed wire for jam tin bombs. The bombs were made near the beach, a spot popularly known as the 'bomb factory' near Anzac Cove. All the old jam
Length of barbed wire, to which is attached two jam tin lids and two jam tins by pieces of wire or barbed wire. A large round piece of tin with crimped edges is attached to the main length of barbed w
ADELAIDE RIVER, N.T. AUSTRALIA. 1942-10-14. EMPTY BOTTLES BEING UNLOADED FOR USE AT THE CORDIAL FACTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY CANTEEN SERVICE. EMPTY BEER BOTTLES ARE USED AS CONTAINERS AND 1,000 DOZE
Barbed wire entanglements along the Hindenburg Line, between Bullecourt and Riencourt, demolished by artillery fire in May 1917. Before the Australian attack on 3 May, a good deal of the wire cutting
Depicts a sketch of a woman painting tins for mortor shells, each tin contain 12 shells which were packed in 3 carriers. High Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria. It is likely the subject of thi
