Pipe

Personal

This curious pipe, carved to resemble a bear’s head, is one of the sentimental items kept to remember Sergeant William Telford. Telford was only 22 years old when he enlisted and left his young wife Elizabeth behind in Australia, only five months before he was killed at Gallipoli on 28 June 1915.

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