The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Sterling Silver and enamel sweetheart brooch for HMAS Australia (I), featuring the Australian coat of arms in white, orange, blue and yellow enamel. The name 'H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA' and the battle honours 'RABAUL', 'GERMAN NEW GUINEA' and 'SAMOA' appear in silver on blue enamel ribbons, while the dates '1914' and '1919' are in silver on orange enamel ribbons. The ground between the HMAS Australia ribbon and the coat of arms is in green enamel. The reverse of the brooch is impressed 'C.T&S. STERLING SILVER', and has a hinged pin clasp.
The Indefatigable Class battlecruiser HMAS Australia was the first flagship of the Australian fleet. Commissioned in 1912 and delivered to Australia in 1913, she served throughout the First World War, escorting the AN&MEF to New Guinea and a New Zealand force to Samoa to occupy German colonies.
Australia later served with the British Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow, but saw little action, missing the battle of Jutland in 1916 owing to damage suffered in a collision with her sister ship HMS New Zealand.
HMAS Australia was sunk off Sydney Heads in 1924 in compliance with the Washington Treaty which limited the numbers of capital ships in the Pacific.
Round, sterling silver and enamel sweetheart brooch in blue, red and white. The centre of the brooch carries a representation of the Corporation Seal first used by the City of Melbourne in 1842, which
Sterling silver and enamel sweetheart brooch with attached safety chain. The brooch takes the form of the Merchant Navy badge showing 'MN' in red enamel on a green enamel ground within a silver reef k
Sterling silver and enamel sweetheart brooch in the form of a silver officer's cap badge, with red enamelled crown and blue enamelled anchor mounted on a silver bar with a brass pin back. A blue ename
Brass bell from battle cruiser HMAS Australia. Black lettering on both sides of the bell reads 'H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA 1913'. The headstock is painted grey and part of the attachment point has broken off
Scale model of the Indefatigable class battlecruiser, HMAS 'Australia', built by John Brown and Co Ltd, Sheffield and Clyde Bank in 1:64th scale. Most of the small fittings are made from soldered bras
Silver wire filigree style brooch in the form of a horizontal oval centered by the Rising Sun badge, bordered by a Kangaroo and Emu and extensive silver filigree decoration. Above the badge is a small
