Crucifix owned by Lt Col R R G Kane, 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers, and carried by him during World War One (1914-1918), inscribed ‘GOTT MIT UNS’, 1918 (c). Hand-made from spent cartridges.

The body of the cross is formed from two cartridges, soldered together base to base; bullets project at top and bottom; the cross piece is also formed from two bullets; a figure of Christ cruified in repousse (probably cut from a commercially made crucifix) in sheet brass is soldered on to the front; the Cross stands on a base cut from a German belt buckle to which it was originally soldered but from which it is now detached; the base is circular, sheet brass with a hole punched in the centre, with the design of a German imperial crown in relief within a rope edged circlet.