A pair of badges belonging to a West Australian World War I soldier have been discovered in landfill in the Wheatbelt.
The find near Beverley, about 120 kilometres east of Perth, included a service badge and a piece of trench art, most likely created on a French battlefield.
Metal detectorist Marc Russo, his wife Lisa and friend Graeme were searching an old landfill site on crown land earlier this month.
"Often we find bottles or coins. I was digging a target and my mate shouted, 'Wow, look at what we've got'," Mr Russo said.
"At the time we had no idea. I've seen similar badges with numbers on each side of the crown; usually that's a regiment or battalion number."
One badge includes the words "Blackboy Hill Camp", which is considered the birthplace of WA's Anzac forces.
The site, at the foothills of the Darling Range east of Perth, was where more than 32,000 troops camped before heading to the battlefields of WWI.
Mr Russo said they shared a video of the find on social media and a military historian pinpointed a likely regiment the soldier belonged to.
"We found out it was a French round, so it was trench art from France in WWI," he said.
"It's a unique find, it's definitely WWI."
It is believed the soldier was killed in France.
The items have been reunited with the soldier's descendants.
