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kit, sewing

human history
  • Common Name
    housewife
  • Other Name

    Hussif (sewing kit), WW1 (descriptive name)

    2/Lt Daniel Patrick Reardon, NZFA, WW1 (associated name)

    housewife (alternative)

  • Description

    Hussif or housewife sewing kit which belonged to 61957 2/Lt Daniel Patrick Reardon, 40th Squadron NZ Field Artillery, NZEF, WW1

    materials: khaki canvas stitched at edges, rolls into a tube & tied with leather, inside black and red felt patch, two domed canvas pockets, single needle in patch

  • Place
    [New Zealand]
  • Associated Place

    Western Front/Europe

  • Accession Number
    1997.15.5
  • Accession Date
    1997
  • Department

    History

    War History

Hussif or housewife sewing kit

Images and documents

Images

  • Hussif or housewife sewing kit
  • Hussif or housewife sewing kit
  • Hussif or housewife sewing kit
  • 1997.15.5 Hussif Cons 14188 AT 01

Artefact

  • Credit Line
    Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum,1997.15.5
  • Primary Maker

     not known (Maker)

  • Place
    [New Zealand]
  • Date
    1914-1919
  • Associated Notes

    Hussif or housewife sewing kit which belonged to 2/Lt 61957 Daniel Patrick Reardon, NZ Field Artillery, NZEF, WW1

    61957 2/Lt Daniel Patrick Reardon

    Trained at Featherston Military Camp

    Served WW1 and with Territorials pre-WW1 and post-WW1

    pre-WW1: Sgt No 1 Battery, Auckland Brigade Field Artillery, 1911; commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant on 28/10/1912

    WW1: 40th Squadron NZ Field Artillery; joined up on 12 March 1917, aged 29 years and embarked on 16.7.1918 (Troopship 107). Embarked for return to NZ on 12/9/1919

    Post-war posted to NZFA ‘A’ Battery as Lieutenant

  • Associated Event
    WW1; 1914-1918
  • Associated Person

     2/Lt Daniel Patrick Reardon

     1NZEF: New Zealand Field Artillery

  • Associated Place

    Western Front/Europe

  • Associated Date
    1917-1919
  • Period

    World War 1, 1914-18/Wars

  • Media

    canvas

    leather/animal material

    felt

  • Measurement Description
    height x width (open): 220mm x 438mm
    strap length 760mm
  • Measurement Reading

    220mm

    438mm

    760mm

  • Subject Category

    sewing/wars

  • Classification

    kit, sewing

    personal gear

  • Last Update
    15 May 2023
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