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bag, holdall

On display
human history
  • Other Name

    holdall for personal effects, WW1 casualty (specific name)

    28007 Pte CB Taylor, Auckland Infantry Regiment, WW1 (associated name)

  • Description

    Calico bag used to hold personal effects sent to next of kin of Private C.B. Taylor 28007, 2nd Battalion Auckland Infantry Regiment, killed in action in France on 30/3/1918. Kept by family as a memento.

    calico bag with purple ribbon tie; typed 'label' on one side: "28007 Pte TAYLOR, C.B. / Holdall with shaving gear. Torch. Comb. 2 wallets 6.5.18"

  • Place
  • Associated Place
  • Accession Number
    1998.63.1
  • Accession Date
    10 Oct 1998
  • Department
  • Display Room
bag, holdall 1998.63.1

Images and documents

Images

Artefact

  • Display location

    Pou Kanohi

  • Credit Line
    [gift of] Mrs Shirley Foster
  • Primary Maker

     1NZEF (Made for)

  • Place
  • Date
    Apr 1918
  • Associated Notes

    Calico holdall used to send personal effects of 28007 Private Charles Brian Taylor (2nd Battalion Auckland Infantry Regiment) to his mother Mrs Mary Elizabeth Taylor - his next of kin - following his death in March 1918.

    Brian Taylor was killed in action, in France on 30 March 1918 and was buried at the Euston Road Military Cemetery, Colincamps, on the Somme. His brother George Barnard Russell Taylor was killed three and a half months earlier and was buried at the Menin Road South Military Cemetery near Ypres.

    After Mrs Taylor's death the holdall was passed on to Brian's sister, Deborah Pitts Taylor (Mrs Spencer), who had also served during WW1 as an ambulance driver based at Brockenhurst Hospital, UK.

  • Associated Event
    WW1; 1914-1918
    Battle of the Somme
  • Associated Person
  • Associated Place
  • Associated Date
    30 Mar 1918
  • Technique
  • Period
  • Media
  • Measurement Reading

    197mm (bag only)

    340mm (bag only)

    15mm (bag only)

    36mm (ribbon)

  • Subject Category
  • Classification
  • Last Update
    15 May 2023
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