Appraisal: WWI Trench Art Shell. GUEST: This is an artillery shell from Great-Uncle Fred. He served in World War I in the Army.

This object began as a World War 1 shell and was turned into a coffee pot by a soldier, most likely recuperating in hospital. It lists some of the major battles, including Passcehendale and Messines.

Great Britain’s Imperial War Museum website (iwm.org.uk) said trench art “is a misleading term given to a wide variety of decorative items, sometimes also functional, produced during or soon ...

‘Alarm clock’, 1918. Sapper Stanley Keith Pearl, 5 Field Company Engineers, AIF, Australia, 1893–1986, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The term “trench art” was coined during WWI to ...

World War I-inspired a prolific amount of trench art, ... She reached in and pulled out a WWI-era pipe fashioned from a hollowed-out bullet. “Somebody used this,” she said.

Trench warfare was a critical component in European theatre of World War I. Here, British soldiers occupy a German trench in at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, France during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

Trench art money belt, 1916 Contributed by Steve Harper Hide image caption; Show ... This object is also symbolic of how much attitudes have changed towards WW1 and its artefacts, ...