Trench Art and Medal

Item

Title

Trench Art and Medal

Identifier

9544.cpd

Subject

Trench art

Abstract

Possessions of a New Zealander who joined the Australian Army as a signalman in the 54th Battalion AIF.

Injured on the Somme and hospitalised in England.

Returned to NZ after the war where he received the medal.

Date

First World War

Date Created

1914-08-04

Temporal Coverage

1919-12-31

Source

Artifact

Medium

Metal

Type

Memorabilia

number of pages

4

Contributor

Everett Sharp
Everett Sharp (Edinburgh Submission Day June 4th 2008)
Mavis Blackwell

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford