u/LindsayCoxoam

All are Salvation Army souvenir items.

Australian Army Chaplains Department, posted to 4th Infantry Battalion, 1st AIF and served in Gallipoli and France from 1915 to 1917 during WW1.

Formed at Rupertswood in Victoria (Australia) as part of the Militia's Victorian Cavalry Corps, it consisted of three horse-drawn 10-barrel Nordenfedlt machine guns (actually volley guns) and acted as a horse artillery unit.

1/42 scale plastic model kit, some plaster and paint.

4/19 POWLH was a Citizen Military Force (now Army Reserve) unit in Melbourne Australia. The Sergeant wears a black beret with silver badge; a black tank-suit; Pattern ’37 webbing belt, pouch and holster; black tank-boots with canvas soles; an Armoured Corps yellow lanyard and an arm brassard with unit title, division and rank.

They were my favourite toys and I've kept them all these years (sometimes still play with them).

'The thin red line' spanning 200 years.

I would be pleased to learn more of its origins. thanks.

Badge issued to my mother in 1944 when she was employed at the Radio Corporation factory in Melbourne, Australia.

On 28 June 1880 Victorian police captured bushranger Ned Kelly after a siege at the Glenrowan Inn. The other members of the Kelly Gang — Dan Kelly, Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart — were killed in the siege. The gang was wanted for the murders of three police officers at Stringybark Creek in 1878. Ned was tried in Melbourne in October 1880 and executed in November 1880.

Was given this toy for my 6th Birthday in 1949, and have had it ever since then. The paper leaves had disintegrated over the years and are now replaced.

The operating principle was that the monkey was connected by string to a weight within the trunk of the tree, which when the monkey was at the base and let go, propelled the monkey up the tree to knock a 'lead' coconut into its arms so that the additional weight propelled the monkey down the tree to the base where the coconut fell into a dish and the lightened monkey shot up the tree to grab another coconut and repeat the process for as many times as there were coconuts in the ledge beneath the leaves.

No batteries, no clockwork ..... just gravity in action!

The Melbourne companies of the Victoria Volunteer Rifle Corps were renamed the Metropolitan Rifles in 1875 and formed into two rifle battalions.