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wallet

human history
  • Other Name

    souvenir wallet: A Present from NZ" (descriptive name)

    50113 Trooper Frederick Tucker, Wellington Mounted Rifles, WW1 (associated name)

    61715 Pte George Mudgway, Wellington Infantry Battalion, WW1 (associated name)

  • Description

    brown wallet, 'A present from N.Z.' that belonged to either 50113 Trooper Frederick Tucker, Wellington Mounted Rifles (killed in action, WW1) or 61715 Private George Mudgway, Wellington Infantry Regiment, WW1

  • Place
  • Associated Place
  • Accession Number
    2004.5.6
  • Accession Date
    13 Jan 2004
  • Department
brown wallet

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  • Credit Line
    Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2004.5.6
  • Primary Maker

     not known (Maker)

  • Place
  • Date
    Circa 1914
  • Associated Notes

    brown wallet, 'A present from N.Z.' that belonged to either 50113 Trooper Frederick Tucker, Wellington Mounted Rifles (killed in action, WW1) or 61715 Private George Mudgway, Wellington Infantry Regiment, WW1

    50113 Trooper Frederick Tucker, 2nd Squadron Wellington Mounted Rifles, son of Edward and Sarah Ellen Tucker of Island Bay Wellington was born on 14 October 1872. A married man with one child he enlisted in 1917, commencing duty on 3 November, and embarking with the 29th Reinforcements on 13 November 1917, on SS Tofua. He served in Palestine where he was killed by a sniper on 1 April 1918.

    George Edward Mudgway (61715) was born on 1 April 1894 at Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand. He served with the Wellington Infantry Battalion, 1NZEF, during World War I and was discharged from active service in New Zealand on 27 May 1919. His wife Molly was the daughter of Trooper Frederick Tucker. George Mudgway died on 30 June 1966 at Otaki, aged 72 years

  • Associated Event
    WW1; 1914-1918
  • Associated Person
  • Associated Place
  • Period
  • Media
  • Measurement Description
    height: 154mm
    width: 110mm
  • Measurement Reading

    154mm

    110mm

  • Subject Category
  • Classification
  • Last Update
    15 May 2023

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