cloth, souvenir
human history
Embroidered souvenir cloth from Egypt, WW1, associated with 12/3565 Private Donald Melville Wood Brown, Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Company, NZEF.
Rectangular purple satin cloth with black fringing and embroidered dedication. A laurel wreath frames the central message, 'To / Hope / Zeitoun / Egypt.'
Hope was Donald's young sister who was a toddler when Donald went to war.
Accession number: 2017.98.5 Last Update: 17 Jul 2025
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embroidered satin cloth, WW1 (descriptive name)
12/3565 Pte. Donald Melville Wood Brown, 3rd Company, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, NZEF (associated name)
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2017.98.5
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13 Nov 2017
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